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Friday, May 5 · 6 – 9pm PDT. Innovit – Italian Innovation and Culture Hub, 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111. Please join us for an interactive and engaging discussion. Attendance is limited and RSVP is required for this in-person event. Join us for an interactive discussion on how an evolving marketplace and Gen Z will influence Made in I...

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“Sentiti a casa. Make yourself at home,” said Beppe, one of the owners of Panificio Di Gesù, as I stepped behind the counter and through the clear plastic curtains into the back of the bakery with my camera.  I was back in Altamura, a small inland city in Puglia, where I had lived for a winter as an au pair almost five years before. The southern It...

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From the ’60s Nuova 500 D Fiat car to the 1995 Frog chair by Piero Lissoni, passing by the inventive Tramonto a New York sofa designed by Gaetano Pesce for Cassina in 1980 and the lip-shaped Bocca one created by Studio 65 for Gufram in 1968 — the last century of Italian design has been punctuated by iconic pieces, now grouped and displayed in a new...

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Walnuts have a long and strange history in Italy. While you might not immediately associate the fatty nuts shaped like little brains with Italian cuisine (as pine nuts, hazelnuts, and even chestnuts hog all that glory), they are quite popular in the northern Italian regions of Campania and Emilia-Romagna. According to PUNCH, the liqueur has a rathe...

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Dolce & Gabbana is a luxury Italian fashion house known for its opulent designs and flamboyant style. The brand was founded in 1985 by designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who met while working as assistants at the same fashion house. The duo quickly became renowned for their bold and daring designs, which were a departure from the minimal...

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The Lioni Latticini Mozzarella Co. has been a pioneer in bringing high-quality, authentic Italian mozzarella and mozzarella di bufala cheese to the U.S. marketplace under the leadership of Giuseppe and Salvatore Salzarulo. Giuseppe Salzarulo, now age 75, was the first generation of his family to come to the U.S. from Italy in 1966. He started makin...

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It was 4 pm on Thursday, April 18, 1963, when, in the headquarters of the Parma Chamber of Commerce, 23 deli meat producers formed the Prosciutto di Parma Consortium on a private and voluntary basis and approved its bylaws, united by the conviction that by working together they would be able to safeguard and enhance their typical cured meat more ef...

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PASTA is among the most popular foods consumed across the world today, and every pasta-eater has a favourite shape whose superiority they swear by. When the “cascatelli” (the word translates to “waterfall” in Italian) was introduced by James Beard Award winning food expert Dan Pashman in 2021, it joined a pantheon of over 350 pasta shapes. Just how...

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If you’ve been to Tuscany, you may be familiar with pizzicagnoli and their stores, which are pretty much the equivalent of a good deli, but also double as a local corner store in small villages. Pizzicagnoli stores are common all over Italy, especially in more rural contexts, but they are not called like that everywhere: “pizzicagnoli” are very muc...

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If still waters run deep, they also run delicious in an aquifer on the Italian island of Sardinia. A line of bottled water from that region was recently named best water in the world at The Berkeley Springs International Blind Water Tasting, held annually in West Virginia. The Smeraldina brand of artesian water is available at select specialty groc...

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