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The 80-Year-Old Sourdough: Why Loison Panettone Belongs on Your Holiday Table
Every season has its traditions, but few have a story as rich as Loison Panettone. What sets it apart isn’t just its delicate texture or...
Frigo Family Started As Cheese Makers
Domestic and Imported Cheeses The Frigo family passed down the art of cheese-making in the United States in the early 1900’s. Prior to that, five...
Gabbiano Chianti Classico: A Tuscan Classic
The Castello di Gabbiano estate, located in the rolling hills of Tuscany, has been crafting wine since the 12th century. Today, their Chianti...
Wine Wisdom From Earl the Wine Guy
Cork or Twist-Off? Especially for immediately consumed wine, Twist Offs have proven as good if not better by many winemakers. Almost all New Zealand...
A Traditional Easter Dinner for Italian Families
Easter is one of the most important holidays in the Italian culture, and it is a time when families gather to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus...
Feast of the 7 Fishes
La Voce The Feast of the Seven Fishes is part of the Italian-American Christmas Eve Celebration. It is a feast that typically consists of seven...
Enjoy our famous Panettone
The holidays are here in full force and we couldn’t be happier! The Frigo family would like to wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday Season....
A Festival of Thanks: A Season for Reflection
Imported olives, stuffed artichokes, mushrooms, and peppers are all available for purchase at both Frigos locations. This is the time of year that...
How to Start at Tradition: Make Really, Really Big Meatballs
Our one-pound meatballs are available to buy at both Frigo store locations in Springfield and Longmeadow. It’s just about that time again. Fall is...
When Summer Gives You Lemons…
When summer gives you lemons... eat lemon ice and let Frigo's prepare dinner! With August in full swing summer is making its presence known, and...
July 29th is National Lasagna Day!
To celebrate National Lasagna Day on July 29th, Joe Frigo was featured on Western Mass News and made his famous Five Minute Lasagna. He also showed...
The Measure Of A Man
Our gourmet subs were just nominated as one of Massachusetts favorite sandwiches. We thank all of our customers who voted for us and feel that it’s...
Buona Pasqua, Mommy Francis’ Easter Shadone
You can order your Easter ham, leg of lamb, stuffed artichokes and Easter pies at Frigos. If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year for...
Looking forward the passage to springtime
The Frigo Family Crest depicts the town of Asiago, where wheels of this wonderfully aromatic mountain cheese are made in the foothills of the...
Leave the wings, take the Lasagna, It’s Game Day!
For your Superbowl entertaining order one of Frigo’s gourmet lasagnas and fry up some of our house-made Italian sausage. If you’re going to watch...
Stuffed and Trussed – the Sunday Roast
Renzo returned from the Army and used the GI Bill to attend the National School of Meat Cutting. The warm glow of the holidays has faded, the...
From starry skies descending – The Christmas Cookies
With bagpipes crescendoing and Christmas bells ringing “Tu scendi dalle stelle” or “From starry skies descending” in the kitchens of Nonnas...
Before the meal – An explanation of “antipasto”
“To pick”, “to enjoy”, “little tastes”, “to relish”. Italians have an assortment of phrases to describe the ritual of antipasto. Literally...
The gift of cake: Frigos continues the tradition of Panettone Christmas Greetings
To Italians, there is nothing more special than Christmastime. The music, the traditions, and oh the foods! For every Christmas memory, there is a...