Classes & Tours Mark Barilla Opening

NYS Wine & Culinary Center Joins in Celebration
Avon, New York in Livingston County is home to the newest addition to the Barilla Pasta family.  Barilla, the largest pasta retailer in the US, constructed a $96 million plant over the summer to house production and shipping for the northeast region, the plant will account for roughly [...]

Eating & Drinking in the Genesee Valley

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an [...]