The Sordid Story of Puttanesca, the Prostitute Pasta Sauce
by Dan Gentile Prostitution has different connotations around the world, but there's only one place where it's inspired a sauce. That place is Italy and the stuff is puttanesca, which translates roughly to "lady of the night." Some sources call the sauce Roman (The Oxford Companion to Italian Food), but it's more commonly associated...
The celebratory week of Filippo Mazzei
In the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of Filippo Mazzei (Poggio a Caiano 1730 -Pisa 1816) the club named in his memory has prepared, in collaboration with the Municipality of Pisa and organizations, cities and organizations that have shared the intent, a week of celebration, "The Friendship Week about Philip Mazzei", as a moment of consecra...
50 italiani che hanno contribuito al progresso (e che forse non conosci)
di Giuditta Mosca Attorno alle invenzioni e alle scoperte vige spesso un alone di mistero e disordine. Il caso più eclatante è quello che vede Meucci e Bell, entrambi padri putativi del telefono e, ancora oggi, dividono intere comunità propense a riconoscerne l'invenzione a uno piuttosto che all'altro. La storia si sovrappone spesso e risa...
Italy shows high ambitions in digital innovations
According to the Global Information Technology Report 2016 Italy has terrifically boosted its digital developement figures in the last year and can be surely called one of the most fast-developing countries when it comes to getting the best use of information and communication technologies. The above mentioned report actually states that i...
Fashion industry growing by 2.5-3.5% in 2017, accessible luxury performing even better
by Giulia Crivelli Yesterday's meeting at Piazza Affari in Milan confirmed many of the figures and trends in fashion/luxury firms for 2016, in both listed and unlisted companies. Growth rates for the decade before 2015 (a CAGR of 5.5%, greater than the global GDP growth) were not experienced in 2016, and are not predicted for 2017, either....
Sbarcare a New York? Se lavori sul brand si può. Intervista a Francesco de Biase
Portare l'Italia dentro a New York nelle più spettacolari ambientazioni per farsi conoscere nella più favolosa città del mondo non è più solo un sogno oggi per le PMI italiane, per gli stilisti e per gli artigiani. Grazie al fatto che quest'anno è l'anno della cultura italiana negli States Francesco de Biase ha creato un modello che permette a tutt...
I rapporti tra Italia e USA nell’economia globale
"Italy - US Relations in a Global Economy" è il tema della conferenza in programma il prossimo 11 giugno all'American University of Rome (AUR) che la promuove con la Niaf. I lavori inizieranno alle 15.00 nell'Auriana Auditorium dell'ateneo con l'intervento di saluto del Presidente Niaf Joseph V. Del Raso e della deputata di Scelta Civica elett...
Vibrant Market Is Heart of Multiethnic Capital
by Michael Donadio ROME — On a sweltering recent morning here, customers from around the world crowded the aisles of the food market in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele near Rome's central train station, shopping for everything from plump Italian tomatoes and peaches to Thai basil, basmati rice and halal meat. "Ciao, capo!" a South Asian vendor s...
Tarquinia, scoperta tomba inviolata
di Marco Gasperetti Non ci hanno creduto (ma era solo scaramanzia) sino a quando, in una nuvola di polvere millenaria, la grande pietra che da 2.700 anni sigillava il sepolcro è stata rimossa. Solo allora gli archeologi dell'Università di Torino e della Sovrintendenza per i Beni archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale hanno avuto la conferma...
The Magical Ambiance of Italy’s Christmas Markets
Italians in Italy don't like to rush things like in America...savor the day, and holiday...one at a time. Come the 1st of December though, Italians and visitors from throughout Europe will be ready to shop in Italy's traditional Christmas Markets. In Levico Terme, in Valsugana, the Historical Habsburg Park provides the fairytale location for the t...
When in Rome
American food icon Alice Waters is a regular visitor to the Italian capital thanks to her work on the Rome Sustainable Food Project. Here she shares her insider tips with David Prior on where to find the city's best authentic flavours. Legend has it that when Alice Waters started her now iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in California in the...
Florence, Rome and Verona temporary hubs for the late-1800s genre
Florence's Palazzo Pitti hosts Impressionists at Palazzo Pitti until January 5th, with 12 Impressionist masterpieces on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Two sections compose the exhibit (one outdoors), while both boast names like Degas and Pisarro, Monet and Cézanne, Guigou and Renoir. Verona, rather, is all about Monet, with the retr...