It’s National Italian Beef Day, and don’t forget the giardiniera!

from The Business of Food with Steve Alexander · host WGN Radio

https://serve.castfire.com/audio/8399412/8399412_2026-05-20-164212.64kmono.mp3 If you like your Italian Beef “dragged through the garden,” you can thank Vincent Formusa. More than a hundred years ago, he started packing chopped veggies in the tradition of his native Sicily–in olive oil. Not only did other Italian immigrants love it, popularity spread, and the V. Formusa Company is still in business […]

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