La Bella Cucina Italian Market

06/21/2026

Happy Father's day to all the dad's out there! We hope you have the best day ever! ❤️🇮🇹

06/19/2026

World Cup visitors from Argentina in Weston!

06/15/2026

Here is your Sunday "Today in Italian History" post. Today we're featuring Battle of Marengo

Napoleon works up an appetite driving out the Austrians

Napoleon was victorious in battle against the Austrians on this day in 1800 in an area near the village of Marengo, about five kilometres south of Alessandria in Piedmont. A chicken dish named after the battle, Pollo alla Marengo, keeps the event alive by continuing to appear on restaurant menus and in cookery books. It was an important victory for Napoleon, who effectively drove the Austrians out of Italy by forcing them to retreat. Initially French forces had been overpowered by the Austrians and had been pushed back a few miles. The Austrians thought they had won and retired to Alessandria. But the French received reinforcements and launched a surprise counter-attack, forcing the Austrians to retreat and subsequently to have to sign an armistice. This sealed a political victory for Napoleon and helped him secure his grip on power. There are various stories about the origin of the chicken dish named after the battle. Some say Napoleon ate it after his victory, while others say a restaurant chef in Paris invented it and named it after the battle in Napoleon’s honour. There is also a story that Napoleon refused to eat before the battle but eventually came off the field with a ferocious hunger.

06/13/2026

There are 20 regions of Italy, we have wines from 18 of them! Please stop by and let me know which one(s) you love!

06/12/2026

Which of these protein packed snacks does La Bella Cucina have in stock????🤔

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

While you're here, stop in La Bella Cucina Italian Market!

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06/10/2026

Welcome to Italy...Oops Weston Missouri!

05/31/2026

Here is your Sunday "Today in Italian History" post. Today we're featuring, for you coffee lovers, Angelo Moriondo - espresso machine pioneer

Bar and hotel owner invented way to make coffee faster

Angelo Moriondo, the man credited with inventing the world’s first espresso coffee machine, died on this day in 1914 in Marentino, a town in Piedmont, about 20km (12 miles) east of Turin. Moriondo, who was 62 when he passed away, was the owner of the Grand-Hotel Ligure in Turin’s Piazza Carlo Felice and the American Bar in the former Galleria Nazionale on Via Roma. He came up with the idea of a coffee machine essentially in the hope of gaining an edge over his competition at a time when coffee was a hugely popular beverage across Europe and in Italy in particular, but which still depended on brewing methods that required the customer to wait five minutes or more to be able to raise a cup to his mouth. Moriondo figured that if he could find a way to make multiple cups of coffee simultaneously he would be able to serve more customers more quickly. He hoped that word would then get round in Turin’s commercial district that his bars were the ones to go if the pressures of business did not allow time for leisurely breaks. He never contemplated industrial-scale production of his invention, his ambitions never extending beyond the needs of his own businesses.

05/30/2026

Kansas City Festa Italiana 2026! La Bella Cucina Italian Market representin' ❤️🇮🇹