Join Danielle & Christian, founders of Arthur Avenue Food Tours, for a live cooking class event and virtual tour of Little Italy in the Bronx. We'll share with you the history of the most intact Little Italy in the United States. We'll also be joined by a few of the Arthur Avenue shopkeepers who will tell you how they are adapting their longstanding family businesses to the new normal shaped by COVID-19.

Arthur Avenue Food Tours introduces locals and tourists alike to the historic food shops of Little Italy in the Bronx. Their tours have been featured in the NY Times, LA Times, USA Today's 10 Best, CNN Travel, and on the cover of The New Yorker. 

Tickets for admission are available at three levels:

Level One includes a reserved ticket.

Level Two includes a reserved ticket plus an ingredient box for the cooking class containing:

• Highest quality spaghetti from Benevento in Southern Italy, formed on copper rollers and slow-dried to be porous and absorb the sauce

• Canned cherry tomatoes

• Mediterranean oregano

• Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, aged 22 months

Level Three includes a reserved ticket plus a premium ingredient box for the cooking class containing the contents from Level Two plus a 34 oz can of extra virgin olive oil from Sicily.

*Please note that Level Two and Level Three tickets are available only until June 24th and shipping is included in the cost.

DANIELLE OTERI

Danielle Oteri's family have been shopkeepers on Arthur Avenue since 1918. She worked at the Met Cloisters for 15 years and is also a food and travel writer with bylines in BBC Travel, Conde Nast Traveler, Gothamist, Metropolitan Museum of Art's blog and Roads + Kingdoms. 

CHRISTIAN GALLIANI

Christian Galliani is a sommelier and Italian wine expert. He was on the wine team at Del Posto, lead sommelier at Tarry Lodge and Senior Beverage Manager at Eataly in the Financial District. Christian grew up shopping on Arthur Avenue with his Italian immigrant parents.