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Italian multinational group Ferrero is overhauling its products to attract premium chocolate lovers.  For the past couple of years, Ferrero’s North America division has been on a mission to reach more customers by launching new product formats and giving existing ones a facelift. The parent company owns popular European brands like Kinder and Nutel...

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If you thought superyachts weren’t wild enough, what with their helipads, spas, ironed bed sheets and million-dollar toys, then prepare yourself for a shock: one Italian design company wants to create a ‘flying’ superyacht. Now, before you go all Isaac Newton on us, or throw your complete works of Albert Einstein at our heads, we don’t mean flying...

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IN 1932, ITALIAN CULINARY MAGAZINE La Cucina Italiana awarded their Best Pasta Sauce prize to one chef’s Sugo Marinetti, or Marinetti sauce. Said sauce stood out not only for its unique combination of chopped pistachios and artichokes sauteed in butter, but also for its ironic title: the firebrand poet Filippo Marinetti, for whom the pasta sauce wa...

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The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) will extend its sponsorship of a curated selection of some of Italy’s very best menswear and men’s accessories designers at the semi-annual Chicago Collective trade show, February 5-7 at The Merchandise Mart. This industry event is one of the pillars on which ITA has built a successful strategy to promote menswear, in...

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Barbera’s fruit-forward aromatics and high yields make this a popular grape worldwide, particularly in Italy’s Piedmont region, the grape’s spiritual home.   “Barbera is a go-to grape for many Italians,” says Jeff Porter, Wine Enthusiast writer at large and Italian wine reviewer. “And depending on if you find it from Nizza, Asti, Alba or Oltrepò Pa...

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Loreto Pacitti was stumped. He was desperate. The pecorino producer couldn't sell one of Italy's most famous cheeses. No one could. Covid had closed restaurants and public markets, skyrocketed production costs and curbed public spending. Worried his cheese would spoil, he did what his ancestors did hundreds of years ago. He buried his cheese in a c...

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The Italian food&beverage keeps on earning success amid international buyers and importers. Restaurants, retailers, food service chains all over the world continue to include Italian products in their ingredients lists, menus and grocery assortments. How do you select Italian products to be included in your offering? Which kind of requirements are...

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Giardiniera is known in the U.S. (primarily by Chicagoans) as the pickled, sometimes spicy, vegetables that top their famous beef sandwiches. But while Chicago may have made giardiniera famous here in America, its roots are not Midwestern. Bon Appétit reports that giardiniera's origins are in Italy, and preserving the topping was born of simple pra...

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One crisp winter day in 2004, Uran Pelushi was walking along the banks of the Vivo, a creek in the Seggiano Valley in southern Tuscany. Unexpectedly, he noticed an object jutting from the leaf-covered earth. At first, it resembled one of the many charcoal-colored tuff rocks that cover the ground in the area. But as he cleared away the weeds around...

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In case you’re still mourning the discontinuation of Ronzoni’s nostalgic star-shaped Pastina pasta shape, we have some carb news that might lift your spirits. Pasta manufacturer Sfoglini is teaming up with The Sporkful Podcast creator and host Dan Pashman to add three likely-new-to-you pasta shapes to your pantry. The two existing shapes hitting th...

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