The Boston Globe, September 28th, 2003
Somerville's Al Capone, the stone-faced proprietor of Capone Foods in Union Square, is actually Argentine. His pasta maker, the Extruder, churns out 600 pounds of 30 varieties each day. But his shelves also groan with Spanish quince paste, caper berries, and piquillo peppers. Until this month, when he was featured as the second stop in a half-mile urban scavenger hunt, the specialty shop had attracted few passersby. It now greets 30 newcomers a week, all following the trail from The Grand Coffee House and still unraveling this rhyming clue: "The name of your next stop might remind you of a mob...
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