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Facts are facts: We're living in the digital era. And while it's projected that we will send "376.4 billion daily e-mails by 2025," per Statista, snail mail is still the preferred method of communication for some people. But you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, and you can't send a letter without some stamps. That's why the United...

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Wine, with its prestige and added value, and with an increasingly pronounced propensity to export is, for some time now, the main product of Italian agribusiness. And it is not surprising, then, that among the agricultural lands of Italy, apart from rare exceptions such as the orchards and apple orchards of Alto Adige, it is the vineyards, in gener...

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Ferrari and Lamborghini are among the most recognizable Italian automakers today, but before either existed another firm set standards for Italian engineering excellence. Now part of California's Nethercutt Collection, this 1928 Isotta Fraschini Type 8A Landaulet is a testament to that bygone automaker. Nethercutt Vice President Cameron Richards pr...

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We don’t need to explain what the idea of Made in Italy is. It stands for a series of key characteristics, quality above them all, but also know-how, attention to detail, and reliability. And while food and fashion are probably what first comes to mind when thinking of it, more industries are contributing to its popularity across the globe. Accordi...

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Brought to Sicily by the Arabs, the wondrous sesame seed is still cultivated by hand today, and with great effort, in Ispica, a town close to the southernmost part of the island. The guardians of its future are two brothers who are undeniably fond of those sunburnt fields.  Arranging a time to chat with the Gambuzza family is almost impossible: the...

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The last time I wrote about Calabria was 2016, four years after spending some time with winemakers that left me wondering what the future held. What I took from my visit could have been lifted from the pages of Mark Rotella’s “Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria,” a narrative of a journey he took with his father, who hadn’t been back to th...

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Twice each week, a caravan of macellai, pescivendoli, and fruttivendolo comes to town. They swell the streets beneath a medieval castle keep in the 14th-century northern Italian city where my family maintains a home. When time allows, on Tuesdays or Fridays past, I’d stroll through the mercato, plucking from the stalls regional olive oils, Parma ha...

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The performance of Italian organic food exports is very positive. Sales in international markets reached 3.4 billion euros in the first six months of 2022, growing by +16% compared to the same period in 2021. The recognition of Italian organic food on international markets is also witnessed by the long-term growth (+181% compared to 2012, a value t...

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ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES, Italian high jewellery is on the menu, with a side of history of course. We’re in the mood for a degustation of tantalising treasures representing a culture of art and craftsmanship that has existed since the Renaissance, long before even. From Bulgari’s juicy gemstones to indulgent alta gioielleria masterpieces by Gucci and D...

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Calabrian hot pepper jam is just one of the spicy foods to come out of Calabria, alongside ‘nduja and sardella, a spicy preserve that's considered the seafood counterpart to the former. It's impossible to speak of Calabrian cuisine without mentioning spicy red hot peppers that stand front and center in nearly all the southern Italian region's recip...

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