IT and US: A love letter to Italy
My “Italian Adventure” novels are love letters to Italy. There’s no other way to describe the experiences of an American who arrives in Italy on holiday and decides to never leave. Both Cucina Tipica (2018) and Cucina Romana (2021) have characters and plot, conflict and resolution, humor and pathos, but all of these traditional narratives are infor...
Italian report: Economy of Beauty
The concept of Beauty encapsulates a code of values that has always distinguished the identity of our country: tradition and innovation, connection and competence, creativity and knowledge. A real strategic resource to plan the future around a sustainable and collaborative model. A territory that develops Beauty, therefore, generates entrepreneuria...
Italian good news: We're going to improve the human-machine relationship
He solved among the first what is considered a universal problem. The problem of language. He did it by building a symbiotic relationship between man and machine. His name is Marco Trombetti. In 1999, with his wife Isabelle Andreu, he founded Translated, a translation service in 194 languages that uses artificial intelligence and humans. And today,...
Italian cuisine: Zucchini Flowers in Beer Batter
Zucchini flowers in beer batter are an excellent aperitif to accompany a refreshing drink. The delicate zucchini flowers, beautiful to look at and delicious to taste, can be used in different recipes. They are very versatile, excellent in risotto, with pasta, filled with ricotta and, if you like, as a delicious appetizer. The Cocoon beer batter, w...
Italian design: A philosophical approach to made in Italy design
"Lezioni Americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio" is a book taken from a series of lectures that Italo Calvino prepared in 1985 in view of six lectures to be held at Harvard University as part of the prestigious "Poetry Lectures" in honor of Charles Eliot Norton. Lightness, Exactness Multiplicity. Three of his six lectures are exactly the...
Italian culture and history: Ravenna
«O lone Ravenna! many a tale is told | Of thy great glories in the days of old: | Two thousand years have passed since thou didst see | Caesar ride forth to royal victory.» Oscar Wilde Of a beauty that is elegant and refined, she is a city of Saints, bankers and kings: Ravenna, in Emilia Romagna, is Italy's second-largest city by extension, but pe...
Italian traditions: Santa Rosalia's U Fistinu in Palermo
There are two feasts dedicated to Santa Rosalia in Palermo. The whole month of September is a feast on the Sanctuary that represents the sacred mountain of the city, that is Montepellegrino. Many legends are told about this mountain, one of these is that of the dragon that terrorized the city. No one was able to defeat the monster, not even a giant...
Italian language: Boh, Mah, Uffa
Hello everyone! We are finally in the midst of summer, and even though travelling to Italy might still be a little troublesome for a little while, I thought about teaching you some words and expressions often used in conversations, so that you can start practicing them and use them fluently next time you come visit! The first expression I’d like to...
Italian gardens and parks: Alta Valle Antrona Natural Park
Valle Introna, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, is an ancient valley, where intense mining has been performed over the (gold in the Upper Valley and iron in Val Brevettola), although most of the inhabitants emigrated in 1600, after a great landslide. At the beginning of the XX century, the vertical slopes and the abundance of water and natu...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 140
Ciao from Rome, welcome to another wonderful issue of our magazine. Things are getting better in Italy, as we tell you twice a week in our video and audio podcast We the ItaliaNews, which we encourage you to watch or listen to all the time. This past June 2, Italy celebrated 75 years of our Republic. At that time Italy chose the Republic and decide...
Italian land and nature: The Italian Riviera di Levante
Enchanted, fairytale-like sceneries await all along the Riviera Ligure di Levante. Beloved by the writers that have told their story to the world, Portofino, Cinque Terre, and the Gulf of Poets greet us one after the other, as we work our way down the coast from Genoa to magical Versilia. Fresh air and pure nature, towns nestled amidst mountain roc...
Italian flavors: Altamura bread
Horace, the great Latin poet of the 1st century BC, while travelling to Brindisi, described the bread of Altamura as “the best by far” and so appetising that “wise travellers carry a load on their shoulders for later”: i.e. a bread for export. The discovery of Pane di Altamura by the Romans, accustomed to stodgy, indigestible barley bread, soon ele...