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Sipping and Snacking In the Shadow

Sipping and Snacking In the Shadow

While researching new products in northern Italy we have been delightfully rediscovering the custom and culture of healthful sipping and snacking.  This has in part been made possible by our friend and...

Sipping and Snacking In the Shadow

While researching new products in northern Italy we have been delightfully rediscovering the custom and culture of healthful sipping and snacking.  This has in part been made possible by our friend and...

Sizzling in DC

Sizzling in DC

Outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. summer was coming on, full-on, with combined temperatures exceeding 120 degrees. Inside the center things were heating up as well, thanks...

Sizzling in DC

Outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. summer was coming on, full-on, with combined temperatures exceeding 120 degrees. Inside the center things were heating up as well, thanks...

Some Pastas to Love

Some Pastas to Love

The sun was setting coral pink <span>and my stomach was full of perfect pasta on Procida. That evening, years ago, was one of the moments when I first realized how...

Some Pastas to Love

The sun was setting coral pink <span>and my stomach was full of perfect pasta on Procida. That evening, years ago, was one of the moments when I first realized how...

Quality EVOO for Quality Customers

Quality EVOO for Quality Customers

As we said in our introduction to Sunday’s tasting at Bayleaf, quality extra virgin olive oil embodies what appassionatos like ourselves love about Italy: its history, its cultural diversity, its foodways, and...

Quality EVOO for Quality Customers

As we said in our introduction to Sunday’s tasting at Bayleaf, quality extra virgin olive oil embodies what appassionatos like ourselves love about Italy: its history, its cultural diversity, its foodways, and...

Speciality Food Importers – and More

Speciality Food Importers – and More

We created RITROVO® almost fifteen years ago, upon our return to the United States. Six years of living, working, and studying regionally focused, Italian foods had led us to the perfect stateside...

Speciality Food Importers – and More

We created RITROVO® almost fifteen years ago, upon our return to the United States. Six years of living, working, and studying regionally focused, Italian foods had led us to the perfect stateside...

Spinasse in Seattle with Catie Di Gregorio

Spinasse in Seattle with Catie Di Gregorio

We decided to have a Ritrovo festa at a new restaurant called Cascina Spinasse which is chef-ed by our longtime friend and Ritrovo pal, Justin Neidermeyer. Here is a chef who knows exactly...

Spinasse in Seattle with Catie Di Gregorio

We decided to have a Ritrovo festa at a new restaurant called Cascina Spinasse which is chef-ed by our longtime friend and Ritrovo pal, Justin Neidermeyer. Here is a chef who knows exactly...