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Italian

American Italian Heritage Museum

Albany, New York

American Italian Heritage Museum

The largest museum dedicated to Italian Americans on the East Coast is located in a 100-year-old church.

Courtesy National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

'Ginevra de’ Benci' Portrait

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

The interior dining room with the glass-windowed kitchen.

Brooklyn, New York

Bamonte's

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Italian immigrants brought fig trees to the northeastern United States, where they surprisingly thrived.

The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places

A grassroots group is creating a living library of these backyard gardens.

Reina Gattuso December 16, 2020

Common foods on St. Joseph altars include <em>cucidati</em>, or fig cookies, and <em>pignolata</em>, or "honey ball" cookies.

How New Orleans Made a Medieval Sicilian Tradition Its Own

St. Joseph protects communities during times of sickness and famine.

Reina Gattuso March 18, 2020

Why There's an 'Italian' Village in Wales

The knife and grill fork.

Boston, Massachusetts

North End Street Utensils

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Sacramento, California

Corti Brothers Grocery

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Chef Vola's

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Sate & Sake, opened two years ago, is quite likely the only Malaysian food truck in Italy.

Italy's Only Malaysian Food Truck Draws an Unlikely Crowd: Italians

Justin Yip's satay is winning over nationalistic eaters.

Luke Fater October 17, 2019

The village of Colonnata, as seen from the white marble hills.

The Tuscan Town Famous for Anarchists, Marble, and Lard

Now gourmet, lardo di Colonnata once fed miners in Michelangelo's favorite quarries.

Reina Gattuso July 15, 2019

Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Cassinelli Pasta

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Super Punch

An obscure Italian amaro became the pride of Pittsburgh.

Interned Italians enter Fort Missoula in 1941.

When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil

For the "enemy aliens" held at Fort Missoula, suet was an insult.

Reina Gattuso February 1, 2019

Antica Aguzzeria del Cavallo

Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

Pizza Montanara

Its deep-fried crust is part of a longstanding Neapolitan tradition.

Pork Skin Braciole

This old-school Italian dish comes in a rich and savory wrapper.

Lampredotto

The secret to this sandwich is the cow’s fourth stomach.