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.
New York City’s San Gennaro celebrates 100 years this year. Here’s a look back at the history of the festival.
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.
Pizza was born in Naples, but it was the Italian immigrants in New York City who mastered it. Today, pizza grown into a truly American food available in every corner of the country. Yet, a little more than a century ago, it was an unknown ethnic food few Americans had ever heard of.
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