Il Cantuccio – the New Cookie Bar in Town
Auguri to Il Cantuccio, a new bakery in the Village. We went to the opening last week. Actually, it is the second opening we attended …
A Culinary Adventure with Gustiamo – Eating Italian in America
It will come as no surprise after my last post that I love food. I love Italian food. But really, I guess I should clarify …
From Camille – A Culinary Adventure with Gustiamo
Camille is a young friend of Gustiamo‘s and she is going to Italy. She is our guest blogger and will post regularly about her great culinary …
Cucina Italiana Magazine. We want you to love it, too!
We love this magazine and always read and use it, as our mothers did, and do, in Italy. In fact, La Cucina Italiana magazine is …
Alan, our IT pro, likes our foods. Are we bartering?
The other day, a warning came up on my computer screen with something like “…symantec disabled…”. Alan, our IT pro, needed to be informed. Instead of …
Slow Food and memorable gastronomic gifts
This is a note we received from Gianna Banducci, a young friend of Gustiamo’s. While our days are now busy busy picking and packing your …
Lunch with Gustiamo – Don’t Call us between 1 and 2pm
Danielle Oteri writes an inspiring food blog called Good.Food.Stories. She came to see us and was given a tour of the the warehouse by Stefano. …
IS America, an invaluable business partner great friends
This is John Elder, of IS America, the US operations of the shipping company Italsempione. A shipping company is one of the importer’s most valuable …
Piennolo Tomatoes at BKLYN LARDER
Tomorrow, Saturday Oct 17, from 2 and 5pm at Brooklyn Larder, the new but already legendary food shop in Brooklyn, we’ll do a presentation of our …
Berta Chateau Restaurant in New Jersey
Peter (Pietro) Bernstein is the owner and chef at Berta Chateau in New Jersey and a customer of Gustiamo since 2006. We always talked on the …
Gustiamo’s Cool Offices
Big Announcement: Gustiamo finally has cool air! We don’t have to sweat in the office anymore! The part of the warehouse where we keep our products has …
Laura Schenone Goes to Bellavitae with Gustiamo
After having attended an animated and interesting presentation at The Calandra Institute of Laura Schenone‘s last lovely book, The Lost Ravioli Recipe of Hoboken, we …
Ducale Restaurant
Ducale, a restaurant on the upper West Side in Manhattan, gets better every time I go. It’s the perfect neighborhood restaurant: nice space and good food at reasonable prices. …
Mario Batali Plays Golf!
The man is perfect. He even plays golf! Just found out from this clip in the New York Post. Mario, if you’re reading this, you should be …
Casimiro Loves Gustiamo Products
I have written previously, on this blog about Casimiro, a street vendor with cart (read previous post here) who is our customer. Today, he visited us again and wanted to …
Beauty Food
I have been reading about food companies trying to market the food they sell as “Beauty Food” ie, foods that improve your looks, sold at …
Lunch With The Devil
Annie Myers, a very pretty, energetic, passionate, young woman, created a project, Radishes and Rubbish, last fall. She organizes field trips for NYU students to visit food companies/venues …
Gustiamo’s Landlord: John Fusco
Gustiamo has been in business for almost 10 years. About 8 years ago, when we moved to the South Bronx, we met John Fusco, a contractor from …
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