Torrisi's interior (not a scene from the video)
I have to admit, I watch the video on the
Torrisi Italian Specialties site the way some people watch the
three-year-old-crying-over-Justin-Bieber clip. It’s a genius alternative from owners
Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone to the blah-blahy bios so many chefs have on their websites, and the video shows everything from one of the owners' grandmother’s 103-year-old lasagna to the inspiration they get from
Mama Leone and
Thomas Keller. Now, Torrisi and Carbone have added
new videos, in which they explain their philosophy of using only American-made products for their outstanding deli lunches and new four-course dinners. (Specifically, the video shows them trying to sell their Italian architect on the virtues of
Progresso bread crumbs.) If it doesn’t quite have the symmetry of the
Bieber-meets-that-crying-three-year-old segment, it’s still fantastically watchable, and it also features one of the Torrisi guys singing "God Bless America."
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