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Galleria Umberto (restaurant)
Galleria Umberto is a cash only North End of Boston pizzeria that specializes in Sicilian-style pizza and was named an America’s Classic by the James Beard Foundation in 2018. They are open only for lunch and when they sell out, they close for the day. In 2022, ''Boston Magazine'' named them Best in Boston for Best Sicilian Pizza. History Umberto Deuterio founded Galleria Umberto in 1974 and passed it down to his sons Paul and Ralph. The building was originally a church. The New Brick Church, which was torn down in the 1840s and known locally as the Cockerel Church because of the shame of its rooftop weathervane. The spire of the church that replaced it was destroyed by a hurricane about 40 years later. The original rooster weathervane was designed by Shem Drowne Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts, and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famous for the ...
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Italian Cuisine
Italian cuisine (, ) is a Mediterranean cuisine#CITEREFDavid1988, David 1988, Introduction, pp.101–103 consisting of the ingredients, recipes and List of cooking techniques, cooking techniques developed across the Italian Peninsula and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Some of these foods were imported from other cultures. Significant changes Columbian Exchange, occurred with the colonization of the Americas and the introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, maize and sugar beet — the latter introduced in quantity in the 18th century. It is one of the best-known and most appreciated Gastronomy, gastronomies worldwide. Italian cuisine includes deeply rooted traditions common to the whole country, as well as all the Regional cuisine, regional gastronomies, different from each other, especially between Northern Italy, the north, Central Italy, the centre and Southern Italy, the south of Italy, which are in continuous exchange. Many di ...
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Pizza
Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, vegetables, meat, ham, etc.), which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. A small pizza is sometimes called a pizzetta. A person who makes pizza is known as a pizzaiolo. In Italy, pizza served in a restaurant is presented unsliced, and is eaten with the use of a knife and fork. In casual settings, however, it is cut into wedges to be eaten while held in the hand. The term ''pizza'' was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern Italian town of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania. Modern pizza was invented in Naples, and the dish and its variants have since become popular in many countries. It has become one of the most popular foods in the world and a ...
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North End, Boston
The North End is a Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It has the distinction of being the city's oldest residential community, where Europeans have continuously inhabited since it was colonized in the 1630s. Though small, only , the neighborhood has nearly one hundred establishments and a variety of tourist attractions. It is known for its Italian American population and Italian-themed restaurants. The district is a pending Boston Landmark. History 17th century The North End as a distinct community of Boston was evident as early as 1646. Three years later, the area had a large enough population to support its own Second Church, Boston, church, called the North Meeting House. The construction of the building also led to the development of the area now known as North Square (Boston, Massachusetts), North Square, which was the center of community life. Increase Mather, the minister of the North Meeting House, was an influential and powe ...
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Pizzeria
A pizzeria is a restaurant focusing on pizza. As well as pizza, dishes at pizzerias can include kebab, salads and pasta. Many pizzerias offer take-away, where the customer orders their food either in advance or at the restaurant and then takes the prepared food with them in pizza boxes to eat at another place. Some pizzerias even deliver food to the customer's home, where a courier transports the ordered food to the customer's outer door or to another agreed site, provided that the delivery address is within a suitable distance from the pizzeria. Pizzas can be transported by car, but in many countries pizza couriers deliver by bicycle or moped. The food can be ordered at the restaurant, by telephone, and in current times often also by Internet. In Italy, pizza was traditionally food for the poor and thus contained few and cheap ingredients. As pizza became popular in the United States after World War II it became mostly a practical dish that was quick and easy to prepare, not ...
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Sicilian-style Pizza
Sicilian pizza is pizza prepared in a manner that originated in Sicily, Italy. Sicilian pizza is also known as ''sfincione'' (; scn, sfinciuni ) or focaccia with toppings. This type of pizza became a popular dish in western Sicily by the mid-19th century and was the type of pizza usually consumed in Sicily until the 1860s. It eventually reached North America in a slightly altered form, with thicker crust and a rectangular shape. Traditional Sicilian pizza is often thick crusted and rectangular, but can also be round and similar to the Neapolitan pizza. It is often topped with onions, anchovies, tomatoes, herbs and strong cheese such as caciocavallo and toma. Other versions do not include cheese. The Sicilian methods of making pizza are linked to local culture and country traditions, so there are differences in preparing pizza among the Sicilian regions of Palermo, Catania, Siracusa and Messina. Variations The ''sfincione'' (or ''sfinciuni'' in Sicilian language) is a very ...
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List Of James Beard America's Classics
Since 1998, the James Beard Foundation has awarded the title of America's Classics to multiple restaurants. The award focuses on family-owned restaurants across the country that have been operating for at least a decade. According to the ''Washington Post'' the awards are given to restaurants “with timeless appeal, each beloved in its region for quality food that reflects the character of its community.” The James Beard Foundation's America's Classics award has been likened to the Oscars of the food world due to its prestige and recognition. NPR National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ... has also described this award category "sneakily subversive". In the early years of the award, the focus was primarily on restaurants that served cuisines familiar to most Americans. How ...
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James Beard Foundation
The James Beard Foundation is a New York City-based national non-profit culinary arts organization named in honor of James Beard, a prolific food writer, teacher, and cookbook author, who was also known as the "Dean of American Cookery." The programs run the gamut from elegant guest-chef dinners to scholarships for aspiring culinary students, educational conferences, and industry awards. In the spirit of James Beard's legacy, the foundation not only creates programs that help educate people about American cuisine, but also support and promote the chefs and other industry professionals who are behind it. History The foundation was started in 1986 by Peter Kump, a former student of James Beard who also founded the Institute of Culinary Education. At Julia Child's suggestion, Kump purchased Beard's New York brownstone townhouse at 167 West 12th Street in Greenwich Village and preserved it as a gathering place where the general public and press alike would be able to appreciate t ...
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Shem Drowne
Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts, and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famous for the grasshopper weathervane atop of Faneuil Hall, well known as a symbol of Boston. Background He was born near Sturgeon Creek in what is now Eliot, York County, Maine. He was the third son of Leonard Drowne, a shipbuilder who came from Penryn, Cornwall, to what was then part of Kittery in Massachusetts. Leonard helped organize and build the first Baptist Church in Maine in 1682. During King William's War many Maine towns were raided and English settlements were massacred by the Wabanaki Indians in conjunction with the French. In 1696, 28 members of the Baptist Church moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and established the first Baptist church there. The Drownes moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1699 due to the ongoing war and violence. Shem married Katherine Clark on Se ...
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Pizzerias In The United States
This list of pizza chains includes notable pizzerias and pizza chains. Pizza is a dish of Neapolitan origin and cuisine, made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is often covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and mozzarella cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference. A restaurant or takeout where pizzas are made and sold as main food is called a ''pizzeria'' () or simply “pizza parlor” in English. The term ''pizza pie'' is a (mainly American) dialectal, and ''pie'' is used for simplicity in some contexts, such as among pizzeria staff. International chains US based see also article: List of pizza chains of the United States * California Pizza Kitchen * Chuck E. Cheese * Domino's Pizza * Little Caesars * Papa John's Pizza * Pizza Hut * Pizza Inn * Sbarro * Shakey's Pizza * Uno Pizzeria & Grill Canada, Europe and Asia * Boston Pizza * Dodo Pizza * Figaro's Pizza * Sarpino's Pizzeria * Telepizza * The Piz ...
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Restaurants In Boston
Current Currently operating restaurants in Boston include: * Amrheins * Anna's Taqueria Anna's Taqueria is a chain of fast-service Mexican-fusion restaurants in the Boston area. Overview Anna's is modeled after U.S. West Coast style Mexican cuisine, specifically the Mission-style burrito of San Francisco. Its menu offers only four ... * Boca Grande Taqueria * Bova's Bakery * Caffé Vittoria *Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe *Cheers Beacon Hill * Dig (restaurant), Dig * The Fours *Galleria Umberto (restaurant) * Legal Sea Foods * Mantra (restaurant), Mantra * O Ya (restaurant), O Ya *The Paramount, Boston * Regina Pizzeria * Santarpio's Pizza * Smith & Wollensky * South Street Diner * Union Oyster House * Upper Crust Pizzeria Defunct

Defunct restaurants in Boston include: * Anthony's Pier 4 * Biba (restaurant), Biba *Brasserie Jo * Doyle's Cafe * Durgin-Park * L'Espalier *Hamersley's Bistro * Jacob Wirth Restaurant *Julien's Restorator * Locke-Ober * Young's Hotel (Boston), Y ...
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