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The 2020 vintage is getting into its heart throughout Italy. The forecasts foresee a good harvest in terms of quality and quantity, however, the wineries’ are concerned about prices and markets stability. This issue is repeating itself each and every year, even more so in a year marked by concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic emergency, which has ha...

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Ligurians, often, don’t come across as particularly pleasant: they lack the expansiveness of our Southerners, but also the good-tempered simplicity of the Piedmontese. Perceived as perennially in a  bad mood and unfriendly to the verge of rudeness, in truth Ligurians are not like that at all.  In many ways, they are people stuck in the very idiosyn...

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If your tomato plants are quickly outgrowing the cages or stakes that looked more than adequate just weeks ago, here’s a tried and true old-school solution. In this first episode of our new series made for IAtv, come along for a visit to Michele’s to learn how he supports his seven foot plants that will be literally loaded with beautiful heirloom t...

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I hadn't been dating Antonia for more than a couple of weeks when she invited me to her parents’ home for lunch. For the first time. We were moving pretty quickly, if you must know, because we had already dated, exactly once, five years earlier, then took a half-decade break to figure things out. Still, I didn’t know her parents at all. “My mom’s m...

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Nothing says old school Italian garden like a strand of braided garlic or onions. They have that wonderfully rustic, yet artistic look. For the Italian gardener, braiding is probably not done for the artistic quality as much as the simple, utilitarian purpose of a space saving, practical way to dry and to prepare garlic or onions for long term stor...

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Sebastian Bariani guns his two-seater Kawasaki utility vehicle through his family’s 180 acres of olive trees in Zamora in Yolo County. The cart bounces up and down as he zooms through the orchards, startling jackrabbits who hop away. Bariani is checking on this year’s growth of 30,000 olive trees, which produce 33,000 gallons of Bariani Olive Oil a...

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The eighth edition of the NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition culminated in the week-long unveiling of 584 winning brands, all of which were entered into the Official Index of the World’s Best Olive Oils. The results of the world’s largest and most prestigious olive oil quality contest once again confirmed the prominent place of Southern Italian pro...

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Italian agriculture is the greenest in Europe after a record cut of 20% in pesticide use. On the contrary, pesticides are increasingly used in France, Germany, and Austria. According to Italian farmers association Coldiretti reporting the latest Eurostat analysis (for the period 2011 – 2018), pesticides use in France – Italy’s main competitor for t...

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Bianche, gialle, noci: lì ci fermiamo. Eppure esistono 15 varietà di pesche in Italia, considerando le piccole produzioni; tipologie locali come la toscana Regina di Londa, le siciliane “pesca nel sacchetto” (letteralmente) e Bivona, e ancora le friulane isontina e Iris rosso. Un peccato non conoscerle (riconoscerle!), provarle. Dall’antica Persia...

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L’Italia, con un valore aggiunto dell’agricoltura pari a 31,8 miliardi di euro correnti, nel 2019 si è collocata al primo posto della classifica europea superando la Francia (31,3 miliardi) mentre più distanziata, in terza posizione, è risultata la Spagna (26,6 miliardi) seguita dalla Germania (21,1 miliardi). Lo rende noto la Coldiretti sulla base...

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