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Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Why Every Pizza Chain Serves Wings

If This Dessert Pizza Technically Isn't Pizza, Then What Is It?

This Italian restaurant treats you like family

They treat you like family and if the experience is not perfect, they take it personally.

Top 10 nutritional pizza toppings

Cancer prevention, weight loss, building muscle - with the right toppings, you won't be wrong in calling your pizza health food.

10 Common Misconceptions About Italian Food

Have you ever glimpsed a perplexed expression on your waiter’s face after you tried to order Fettuccine Alfredo in a restaurant in Italy? Or have you ever ordered pasta marinara, expecting a tomato sauce, and instead received a shellfish pasta? The food served in many Italian restaurants in the United States is not quite as Italian as you think. [...]

The 20 Best Places to Eat Pizza Right Now

If you’re not a pizza snob now, you will be by the time you finish reading this.

25 Italian Restaurant Words You Need to Know

Start your meal off with some antipasti, followed by linguini vongole and end it with a delicious zabaglione. No idea what these are? Learn the language of the Italian menu.

Got Corn? You Should Be Putting It on Your Pizza

It's the unexpected topping your summer pizza has been missing.

How Italian Cuisine Became as American as Apple Pie

If you’re wondering about how and why food gets appropriated—i.e. when Americans consider it their own—think about this: Eating Italian food was once considered “slumming.” So what does it take for…

6 Things you Didn't Know About Italian Food

6 Things you Didn’t Know About Italian FoodIt is certainly no controversial statement to say that there is a lot to Italian food. It’s got a long history, is created by a creative and eclectic people with roots from all over the continent, and it has been refined for centuries. Everybody knows something about Italian food, it’s history and it’s preparation- after all- no one could reach the age of five without seeing an Italian chef toss pizza dough into the air…

12 Italian Phrases Everyone Should Know How to Use

Enhancing your knowledge of the Italian cultural experience means moving beyond ciao and gelato. Master these terms, and you'll look more worldly in no time.

Italian cuisine does not exist, and we have the maps to prove it

You can get a pizza even in Pyongyang. But is it Italian?

Greenville: 10 Iconic Eats and Where to Get Them

Get a taste of Greenville’s favorite foods at these 10 establishments.

12 of the biggest differences between Italian and American diets

Though Americans enjoy pasta and pizza, the way we eat varies greatly from the way Italian people eat. From our coffee consumption to our meal times, here are the biggest differences between Italian and American diets.

Italian Man Spends 40 Years Building Hand-Powered Rides Around His Restaurant

In a forest in Battaglia, Italy, lies a family restaurant called Ai Pioppi that is surrounded by a fantastic carnival of hand-powered...