The Contents
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Pat Morris, Head Chef at Tursi’s Latin King
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Marzetti pasta has deep Iowa roots
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Italian or Iowan, white wines work
Now That's Italian!
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THE FEATURE- Marinara in the Veins
By Jim Duncan When the Greater Des Moines Civic Center opened in the late 1970s, a survey of its first sold-out audience asked out-of-towners, “What in Des Moines is worth a 100-mile drive?” The number one answer — Italian restaurants — surprised some people. However, since the first Italian food store, Candy Bunoni, opened in [...]
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THE DISH- Third quarter boom for local food sector
By Jim Duncan National news was ambivalent the last quarter. While the Natural Resource Defense Council found that the average U.S. household now spends only 10 percent of its income on food, the lowest percentage in history, it added that each household also throws away more than $2,200 a year in uneaten food. The local [...]