M E LR O S E P A R K’ S G OT T A S TE

Hours before the opening of last year's Taste of Melrose Park, Dom DiFazio and Dio Vacaro paused for a photo in front of their respective booths, Capt. D's Homemade Lupinis and D&D's Arancini.

Just as they smiled for the camera, a neighborhood guy zoomed by on a golf cart and shouted, "Hey, you think you can actually fit his whole big head into one shot?"

DiFazio looked down, somewhat abashed, and said, "Some of the guys say I got a big head."

Busting balls, that proud Italian-American tradition, is part of what makes this annual festival in west suburban Melrose Park so endearing and entertaining.

But the food is the thing.

Now in its 30th year, …