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Pizza and the City: Maybe It’s The Friends We Make Along the Way, a Conversation with Andrew Young, Founder of New York City Pizza Week

Friday, September 18th, 2026 | 3,514 views

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 with him about how and why he did it.

The Food Is A Bonus: A Conversation with Agata De Santis, author of Sundays With La Familia

Wednesday, September 16th, 2026 | 738 views

San Gennaro Is A Gastronomic Celebration of Immigrant Foods

Thursday, September 10th, 2026 | 574 views

Thursday, February 26th, 2026

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 probably because Americanized Alfredo sauce became far more than a condiment to fresh egg noodle pasta.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

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 sauce foods.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

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 competitors like Cadbury, Hershey, and Nestle. So how did this nutty spread go from odd ethnic condiment to household staple?

Friday, December 12th, 2025

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

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

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 history, and more.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

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 pizza to the United States, and the evolution of the dish from working-class flatbread into global sensation. I caught up with him earlier this month to talk about the book.

Friday, October 10th, 2025

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 pushcarts selling penny licks before eventually growing a multi-million dollar industry.

Sunday, September 14th, 2025

The feast of San Gennaro once hosted competitive eating contests for cannoli, meatballs, pizza, and zeppole, but then in 2023 all that changed. Here’s a look back at the history eating contests at the Feast.