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On the Rise: The Best Bakeries from ��ý's Top Pizza Chefs

by Luciana.Squadrilli | Tue, 04/26/2022 - 04:24

Just like the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, one could ask the same of bread or pizza. A type of flatbread…

Food & Drink

New Exhibition in Oxford Celebrates Beloved Italian Chef Antonio Carluccio

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 10/01/2021 - 06:40

The beloved late Italian chef Antonio Carluccio, celebrated as the man who taught the British the pleasures of authentic Italian cuisine, is getting his own…

Lifestyle

"The Chef of Greenwich Village”: The Immigrant Story and Secret Recipes of Beloved New York Chef Pietro Mosconi

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:00

[Photo credit for lead image: Terry M Costigan @tmznews.] Perseverance and determination run in the Mosconi family. It is those character traits that led…

Food & Drink

Osteria Francescana Holds Steady at World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards

by Silvia Donati | Tue, 04/29/2014 - 06:29

Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana has just added another award to its long list of accolades: at the prestigious San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant…

Food & Drink

Talking To: Chef Francesco Gotti

by Julie Burns | Wed, 12/18/2013 - 07:00

Francesco, 41, is executive chef at Bobadilla Restaurant in Bergamo, and has cooked in some of the most famous hotels in Milan. Three times a year…

Lifestyle

Italian Crowned American MasterChef

by Carol King | Wed, 10/09/2013 - 05:00

Italian-born Luca Manfè has won the title American MasterChef on the Fox reality TV series. Manfè was victorious in the fourth season of the show, which…

Food & Drink

Italian Named World’s Best Female Chef

by Carol King | Thu, 04/04/2013 - 13:24

Nadia Santini has been named the Best Female Chef 2013 at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards.The Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef award is presented…

Food & Drink

Interview with Celebrity Chef Aldo Zilli

by Julie Burns | Fri, 11/23/2012 - 09:02

The youngest of nine children, award-winning chef Aldo Zilli grew up in Alba Adriatica in Abruzzo - but made his name in England. One of the first to introduce…

Culture

History on a Plate in Basilicata

by Sharon Rogers | Fri, 10/12/2012 - 08:58

Chef Federico Valicenti is a real people person and when you visit his restaurant Ristorante Tipico Luna Rossa in Terranova di Pollino, the main town in the…

Food & Drink

Antonio Carluccio’s Guide to Outrageously Good Italian Food

by Ife Adedeji | Mon, 10/08/2012 - 08:32

He’s the jovial Italian, a television personality that everyone wants to take home for dinner, and he’d probably end up making the meal too. ‘I am fed up of…