I found an authentic Sicilian-style sandwich at San Gennaro

“You are totally burnt out by the end of it,” one vendor said of the intense process. “It really takes a toll on your body, diet and everything else.”

Andrew Young accidentally launched pizza crawls in New York City. Then he had an idea: NYC Pizza Week. He spent the last 10 months creating a two week-long event that launches this week. We talked wit...

Author photo by Alex Tran, provided courtesy of the author We talk with Agata De Santis about her new book, Sundays With La Famiglia

New York City's San Gennaro celebrates 100 years this year. Here's a look back at the history of the festival.

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Tells the story of Italian food arriving in the United States and how your favorite red sauce recipes evolved into American staples. In Red Sauce, Ian MacAllentraces the evolution of traditional Itali...

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Rigatoni with American Alfredo and grilled chicken Fettuccine Alfredo is a classic pasta dish invented in Rome, yet many Italians today will deny Alfredo sauce even exists in their country. That's pr...

Perhaps the first recorded tomato sauce in Europe, Antonio Latini presented a recipe in his 1692 publication Lo Scalco alla Moderna and suggested it could be served with anything boiled, meaning it wa...

"Lady and the Tramp" introduced us to the spaghetti kiss and forever transformed the pasta into a date night food

The Ferrero company built a confectionary empire on Nutella spread, now ubiquitous around the world. But as far as chocolate treats, Nutella is a relatively recent invention created decades after comp...

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From the start of the Italian diaspora, Italian American cuisine has evolved in the United States over the last century and a half. Here's a quick look at the timeline of some of our favorite red sauc...

Neapolitan pizzas have always been small. These pizzas are typically about 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Traditionally these pies are served whole, although in modern restaurants, some Neapolitan-style...

The Ferrero company built a confectionary empire on Nutella spread, now ubiquitous around the world. But as far as chocolate treats, Nutella is a relatively recent invention created decades after comp...

We took a look back at the Italian, Italian American, and Italian-ish cookbooks from the past year.

Food, Culture, and Italian American experience

Food, Culture, and Italian American experience

A panettone with the dome-like shape Nothing is quite like cutting open a panettone on Christmas morning. It's a tradition that has been in my family since before I even liked eating bread filled wit...

Utica Greens, Thanksgiving Pizza, Sausage Party, hot honey and more!

Red Sauce — MacAllen, Ian, 1981- — "A narrative social history tracing the evolution of traditional Italian American cuisine from its origins in Italy and its transformation in America into a distinct...

Book - 2022. A narrative social history tracing the evolution of traditional Italian American cuisine from its origins in Italy and its transformation in America into a distinct new cuisine--

Cookbook author, food journalist, and tour guide Katie Parla launched her latest volume, Rome, focusing on the food and history of the eternal city. We discussed creating the book, Rome's culinary his...

Photo by Thomas Prior Historian Luca Cesari is an expert on Italian food. In his new book, The History of Pizza, he explores the origins of this iconic Neapolitan dish, looks at the migration of piz...

Photo by Thomas Prior Historian Luca Cesari is an expert on Italian food. In his new book, The History of Pizza, he explores the origins of this iconic Neapolitan dish, looks at the migration of piz...

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Understanding red sauce means understanding the immigrant story. Italian-American food tells a tale of adaptation, resilience, cultural pride

Red Sauce America is an online publication celebrating Italian American food and culture with interviews, essays, and reviews. Our channel features ASMR videos of various tomato sauces bubbling on the...

Summer tastes like Italian Ice. The sweet cold treat was introduced to American cities with Italian immigrant enclaves in the early 20th century. Those early vendors launched the Italian Ice industry ...

From machete fights in California fields to hijacked railcars in the Bronx, organized crime transformed the humble artichoke into a lucrative—and violent—black-market prize.

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Sellers of fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares

Sausage and peppers, sour beers, Italian wontons, Chinese ravioli, and more

In the late 1970s, Burger King was losing the burger wars. McDonalds had come to dominate fast food on a national level. A number of factors contributed to Burger King lagging behind like poor managem...

This Italian American festival in New York City reflects its neighborhood’s changing populations and priorities.