{"id":206014,"date":"2024-05-28T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/?page_id=206014"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:01:22","slug":"red-sauce-episode-2-laicos-jersey-city","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/red-sauce-episode-2-laicos-jersey-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sauce, Episode #2: Laico&#8217;s, Jersey City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America presented the second episode of Red Sauce: An Italian American Culinary Journey, a docuseries produced in collaboration with the School of Communication &amp; Media at Montclair State University on Monday, March 4th at 6pm in the School of Communication &amp; Media Presentation Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This episode features Laico&#8217;s located in Jersey City, NJ. Opened in 1972, many locals refer to Laico&#8217;s as one of the iconic &#8220;red sauce&#8221; joints in the area, in which it is one of the only ones that remains. After more than 50 years in business, Laico&#8217;s never lost its touch, especially with their renowned chicken parm dish and the mention of their eggplant rollatini in the NY Eater&#8217;s 15 Best Dishes of 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/coccia-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/05\/laicos-catering.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/coccia-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/05\/laicos-catering.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"People gathered at a dinner buffet\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catering provided by Laico&#8217;s, including their famous chicken parm!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attendees watched the debut of the new episode over food catered by Laico&#8217;s themselves, and later engaged in a lively Q&amp;A session with the producers of the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/3TKPacmU4S2fSsLu6\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> for a photo gallery from this event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Red Sauce, Episode 2: Laico&amp;#039;s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PTDA0onRKq0?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America presented the second episode of Red Sauce: An Italian American Culinary Journey, a docuseries produced in collaboration with the School of Communication &amp; Media at Montclair State University on Monday, March 4th at 6pm in the School of Communication &amp; Media Presentation Hall. This episode features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":206015,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206014","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206360,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206014\/revisions\/206360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}