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‘Little Italy in the Bronx’ brand expands product offerings
The Belmont Business
Improvement District and
Summer Garden Food announce
two new additions
including imported Italian
gnocchi and bronze die pasta
made from Tuscan wheat to
the portfolio of the ‘Little
Italy in the Bronx’ products,
which already includes
seven sauce varieties from
cherry tomato to arrabbiata.
Sourced from Tuscany, the
new pasta and traditional
Italian gnocchi will be available
at stores nationwide
beginning in early 2020,
including spaghetti, angel
hair, linguine, rigatoni, rotini
and farfalle.
“Our mission at the Belmont
Business Improvement
District is to promote and
expand the economic wellbeing
of our local business
community and the iconic
Arthur Avenue neighborhood,
by promoting our ‘Little
Italy in the Bronx’ brand,
our strong ethnic heritage
and traditions. Our community
has been deeply rooted
in our Italian heritage for
over a century,” said Peter
Madonia, chairman of the
Belmont BID. “When Summer
Garden Food fi rst approached
us about a partnership
about the sauce line, it
seemed like a natural fi t.”
Headquartered in
Youngstown, OH and operated
by Zidian Group,
Summer Garden Food was
originally founded as a family
owned and operated business
in 1948 by the late John
Zidian who fi rst immigrated
from Italy. “As a company,
we are always looking to
expand our footprint and
launch a premium pasta
sauce. After searching for
the right partner, we found
that the Arthur Avenue
neighborhood was a perfect
fi t not only due to its history,
but also because the amount
of artisan shops and restaurants
that are all concentrated
in this unique neighborhood.
We simply couldn’t
fi nd another area like this
outside of Italy,” said Mike
Audi, national vice president
of Sales for Summer
Garden Foods.
Originally launched in
January 2018, the Little Italy
Bronx pasta sauces are now
in over 6,000 stores in the
U.S., including ACME, Meijer,
Publix, Safeway, Shop-
Rite, Stop and Shop, Jewel
and more.
In addition to the Tuscan
pasta, the Belmont BID
and Summer Garden Food
are currently working on introducing
Little Italy in the
Bronx Gnocchi. While the
Tuscan pasta features 100%
wheat from the Tuscan countryside
and water from the
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springs of Valdichiana, the
Gnocchi will consist of 80%
potato and 20% wheat fl our
made in the Calabria region.
Unlike most pasta sauce
plants in the U.S. that utilize
large kettles and silos of tomato
paste, all Little Italy in
the Bronx Sauce are crafted
in small-batch production,
which avoids overcooking
tomatoes. Summer Garden
Foods produces Little Italy in
the Bronx sauce in small kettles
creating more of a sauce
that consumers would fi nd
in Italy using ingredients
from the garden and simply
cooked for a short time.
A portion of proceeds of
the Little Italy Bronx pasta
sauces and products go towards
the Belmont BID to
help preserve the Arthur Avenue
neighborhood and traditions
for generations to come.
As an economic and cultural
engine, the Belmont neighborhood
hosts thousands of
regional and local shoppers,
as well as domestic and international
tourists each year,
making it one of the busiest
and well-known communities
in New York City.
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