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Sannino Bella Vita Vineyard, in Cutchogue, traces its origins in part to the island of Ischia, near Naples. The grandparents of Anthony Sannino, who owns Sannino Bella Vita with his wife, Lisa, grew grapes and made wine there; they immigrated to Brooklyn when his mother was 16. Anthony and Lisa Sannino bought a fully planted [...]
ON a trip to Italy last year, Carol Festa and Tom Geppel of Mattituck savored the pecorino and ricotta in Tuscany. Back home on the North Fork, motivated by an increasing involvement with the sustainable farming and local food movement, they leased farmland and bought 13 hardy Icelandic sheep. “The intention is to make cheese,” said Ms. [...]
It doesn’t take much in the way of ingredients to make a good fish stew, but it does need good fresh fish. Enter local fishmonger Alex Villani of Blue Moon Fish. Well known in Manhattan and Brooklyn Greenmarkets, his fish and shellfish have a loyal following. In an admirably energetic and unusual arrangement, the man [...]
BRILLIANT ideas sometimes arise out of pure necessity. Consider Piero Lugano, 63, the suntanned artist-turned-wine-merchant who opened a shop called Bisson in this town on the Italian Riviera in 1978. Not content merely to sell wine, he soon began making it. Ten years ago he decided to try producing sparkling wine from indigenous varieties grown [...]
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