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Press

Disco hit: Penne alla vodka, popular in New York 80s clubs, is now a menu staple

April 25, 2026

Spaghetti is a mess. So, why is it so romantic?

February 14, 2026

Why the mafia fought a bicoastal gang war over artichokes

September 24, 2025

How Marcella Hazan rewrote the story of Italian food in America

Agusut 1, 2025

New York Is a Red Sauce Town. So Why Are These Restaurants Quietly Disappearing?

July 8, 2025

How baked spaghetti became American, one casserole at a time

April 7, 2025

Ferdinando’s Focacceria Is Closed Brooklyn lost a century-old Italian gem this weekend.

February 24, 2025

Everything You Need for a Real Italian-American Feast of the Seven Fishes

December 13, 2024

Pizza Capital Showdown

December 2024

Inside the Fascinating Evolution of Italian Restaurant Design

August 27 2024

Pizza Napoletana

August 2024

Manger italien à New York : envoyez la (red) sauce

May 30, 2024

Lasagna soup drops the work but keeps the taste

February 25, 2024

Will It Soup? Lasagna Edition.

February 14, 2024

How to make the perfect pasta alla vodka – recipe

January 3, 2024

The Legend of Patsy's: An Oral History of an Italian Restaurant Icon

December 11, 2023

A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

October 11, 2023

Why Is Everything Italian Now?

September 7, 2023

‘Oh my God, Obama’s stopping by for pasta’: can New York’s Carbone survive its own success?

May 10, 2023

How Vodka Sauce Became an American Celebrity

April 14, 2023

Pasta, pannetone, Parmegiano and pizza are obviously Italian . . . right?

April 2, 2023

What’s Behind Panettone’s Rise from Holiday Outlier to Food-World Favorite

December 20, 2022

The Red-Sauce Joint, in a Jar

October 7, 2022

Connecting the Dots From Sicily to SpaghettiOs

August 17, 2022

‘Michael’s Is the Place Where the Deal Is Happening’ Inside the Brooklyn red-sauce joint where dinner has the power to reshape the city.

April 19, 2022

How Italian food like pizza and pasta became American as apple pie

March 26, 2022

If You Eat It, It Becomes Authentic: A Conversation About Red Sauce

August 3, 2022

More Time To Travel

Italian American Foods: An Evolving Fusion Cuisine

August 28, 2022

Red Sauce - How Italian Food Became America

July 26, 2022

Ian MacAllen’s Red Sauce

May, 2022

Jersey City Times

Is Chicken and Veal Parm Truly Italian? A New Book Offers an Answer

May 10, 2022

Nostalgia, Marketing, and Comfort Food in “Red Sauce”

May 4, 2022

The 10 New Books You Should Be Reading This April

April 5, 2022

Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American

March 15, 2022

Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report

May 12, 2021

Television

The Food That Built America: All American Marinara

February 25, 2024

Radio

100 Years of 100 Things: Pizza

August 5, 2024

620am Pittsburgh

The Italian Radio Hour

December 29, 2022

From Red Sauce to Cioppino: How Italian American Food Became Synonymous with America’s — and the Bay Area’s — Cuisine

May 6, 2022

Podcasts

Flavor of Italy

Flavor of Italy

October 28, 2025

New Books in Food with Miranda Melcher

January 22, 2024

Public Reading Club

Episode 4: Ian MacAllen

March 21, 2023

Chills at Will Podcast

Episode 154 with Ian MacAllen: Versatile Writer and Creator, Student of Foods and Cultures, and Author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American

November 29, 2022

IAP 232: RED SAUCE: A TWO-PART EXPLORATION OF HOW ITALIAN FOOD BECAME AMERICAN WITH SPECIAL GUEST IAN MACALLEN

March 11, 2022

IAP 233: RED SAUCE: A TWO-PART EXPLORATION OF HOW ITALIAN FOOD BECAME AMERICAN WITH SPECIAL GUEST IAN MACALLEN (PART 2)

March 18, 2022

On Parenting

Can an app help reduce your mental load as a new parent?

March 8, 2022

On East Williamsburg Succession

DNA Info

4 Times Secessionists Campaigned to Leave New York City

April 26, 2016

NY Mag

The Neighborhood News

November 14, 2012

Gothamist

East Williamsburg Graphic Designer Starts Petition To Secede From Unhip Williamsburg

November 15, 2012

NY Daily News

Hipster vs. newcomers in Williamsburg prompt secession effort

November 21, 2012

Curbed

East Williamsburg Petitions to Secede from Williamsburg

November 16, 2012

Brokelyn

The war between the nabes: East Williamsburg wants to secede!

November 16, 2012

Brooklny Vegan

A proposal for East Williamsburg to secede from the union emerges

November 16, 2012

On New York City Toilets

Observer

Game of Thrones: New York City’s Most Filthy and Fascinating Bar Toilets

February 22, 2013

CityLab

The 3 'Genres' of Brooklyn Bar Bathroom, Explained

March 5, 2013

Daily Mail

Are these the world's most interesting toilets? Photographer goes on a quest to document the bathrooms of New York City

March 24, 2013

ANIMAL

Guess What the “Toilets of New York” Tumblr Features

February 25, 2013

Observer

You Can Finally Explore Brooklyn’s Grossest Bathrooms Set to Sexy Slow Jams

November 25, 2013

Gothamist

This Video Makes Brooklyn's Dive Bar Bathrooms Look Beautiful

December 2, 2013

Huffington Post

Brandon Bloch And Tim Sessler Find Beauty In Brooklyn Bar Bathrooms

December 2, 2013

Bloomberg

The Hidden Art of Dive Bar Bathrooms

November 29, 2013

Observer

A Petition to the Petitioners Trying to Secede East Williamsburg From Namesake

November 16, 2012

On Gentrification

Hudson Reporter

The big clock by the river Colgate Clock still an icon in Jersey City

October 15, 2007

New York Times

Nets Go, Yuppies Come. What's He Thinking?

June 19, 2005

Original Gawker

Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control

June 7, 2005

Curbed

New York's Sixth Crosses The Hudson

June 7, 2005