Tag: Italian Food

It Takes a Rock-Piled Village

In the dawn of the 1980s, Nicola Marzovilla was a humble workaday ladieswear salesman with a dream: to make New Yorkers know and love the cuisine of his homeland, Puglia, Italy.

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My Facebook Friend, Marcella Hazan

My one and only experience with Marcella Hazan was on Facebook. In a fit of desperate writerly need, I brazenly reached out to her via an IM. To my enormous surprise, she responded straight away.

Rice Farmers Put Down Risotto Roots in the East Village

When New Yorkers think Italian fare, they typically think pasta or pizza—but one little restaurant in the East Village is looking to change that. Opened this spring by a Verona-based family of farmers, it’s got just about one thing on the menu: rice.

Need Holiday Gifting Inspiration? Check our Video Tour of DiPalo’s Fine Foods

In the current issue of Edible Manhattan Amy Zavatto takes a hard look at the history one of our favorite meals, the Italian seafood smorgasbord known as The Feast of the Seven Fishes, traditionally served on Christmas Eve. As part of her piece she spoke with Lou DiPalo, whose family-run Italian market has held court on the corner of Grand and Mott streets in Little Italy since 1925. You can get a glimpse of his shop on our most recent NY1 Let’s Eat segment, which airs Fridays and Sundays and is also captured right here online.

No Fauxtalian Here: Led by Batali, the City’s Top Italian Chefs Cook for James Beard

On Wednesday night, at Guastavino’s under the 59th Street Bridge, we tasted the new face of Italian food in New York, like salumi from Cesare Casella of Salumeria Rosi. What tied all these dishes together wasn’t just their Old World inspiration, but their locavore sensibility: They were all made from mostly New York grown ingredients: In fact this batch of sopressatta was Casella’s first made with Empire State meat.