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RAGONESE IMPORTS ITALIAN SALUMERIA
CUCINA ITALIANA DINE & SHOP My family knows great mod- ern and traditional Italian food when we taste it... My paternal grandpa, Thomas Long, started farming and cooking with Jews and Italians circa 1912... CANALI’S MAN NI GOT There’s a difference be- tween the cuisine of north- ern and southern Italy that I learned on my last trip to Rome, and then Sicily, Italy. — Food & Travel Editor David J. Long, Jr., CDM, KOFC
Shop for hard-to-find Italian imported cheeses like Aged Ricotta, Caciocavallo, Crotonese, D.O.P. Locatelli, Mascarpone, Par- migia Reggiano, Prima Donna, Primo Sale, Pecorino Salata, Bu- fala Mozzarella, and other gour- met specialty cheeses. Don’t forget the Heat-and-Serve Baked Ziti, Eggplant Parm, Egg- plant Rollette, Italian-style Fried Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna, Meat- balls & Sausage in sauce, cold antipasto, chicken salad, crab- meat salad, grilled marinated eggplant, pepper shooters, roast- ed red peppers, and Sicilian olives, to name a few! You will find many brands of ar- borio, rice, polenta, couscous, orzo, gnocchi, penne, other dried and frozen pastas, and Brooklyn-made Ragonese ravioli. Shop for Italian specialties for baking—as well as Bindi® brand desserts, home- made cannolis made on the prem- ises, and, of course, Italian cookies, cakes, and other pastries. Buy your panettone, pandoro, and other imported desserts during the holidays. Ragonese is a true Salumeria Italiana, Greek, and American gourmet food and specialty store… Shop here six days a week. ADV “...delicatessen... catering, Italian imports, and hard-to-find Italian specialites.”
Since opening their Italian Salumeria and grocery store in 1986, John and Vinnie Ragonese have renovated the shop twice… Owner John Ragonese’s mother- in-law is Modesta Di Carlo from La Gioia Deli in Schenectady, New York, whose partner, Anna DiCoco, is John’s wife’s aunt.” R agonese Italian Imports is a decades-long Salumeria Italiana and specialty grocery shop, known for its sensational delicatessen, sandwiches, catering, Italian imports, and hard-to-find Ital- ian specialties… Shop here to prepare the perfect feast and/ or family supper… They offer Guanciale, and dry-cured im- ported meats like prosciutto crudo, prosciutto di Parma, gabagoul, salami, soppressata, and other cold cuts.
Ragonese also makes Italian sausage fresh on the premises.
Brothers and owners, John and Vinnie Ragonese immigrated from Castiglione di Sicilia in the 1970s… At Ragonese Italian Imports, you will find a large selection of D.O.P. imported San Marzano tomatoes, tono (imported white tuna in olive oil), grilled mackerel in oil, sardines, scun- gilli, and a variety of jarred ca- ponata (Italian eggplant salad), bruschetta, pesto, artichokes, jarred antipasto, black sepia (cuttlefish) in sauce, squid ink, dried lupini beans, dried por- cini mushrooms, an endless rack of extra virgin olive oils, aged balsamic vinegar, and Paolo’s brand of imported or- ganic herbs and spices.
Manicotti (MAN NI GOT) is a type of crepe-made pasta in Italian-American cuisine. They are large and lovely pasta tubes intended to be stuffed with savory fillings, and then topped with toma- to sauce and baked... We were at Canali’s Italian & American Restaurant to video Chef Gabby making manicotti (MAN NI GOT) from a batter on the stovetop. #manigot #italianameri- canslangwordoftheday WATCH THE VIDEO
RAGONESE ITALIAN IMPORTS • SALUMERIA ITALIANA 409 New Scotland Ave • Albany, NY 12208 Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. • Saturday 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Phone: (518) 482-2358 ragoneseimports.com
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