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Among the fruits mainly produced in Italy, certainly the Tarot oranges cultivated especially in Sicily and exported all over the world stand out. In addition to being rich in nutrients, these citrus fruits are used to prepare many excellent recipes and also as a ingredient to create products of various tipo as the candles. One of the main character...

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Gianluca Bisol has developed a taste for exotic wines close to his home in Italy’s Veneto region. After making his fortune in the Prosecco boom with his family’s historic winery in Valdobbiadene, Bisol has taken on some off-the-wall side projects with vineyard ventures in places few (or no) others dare to go. Fifteen years ago, he began his tiny Ve...

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Peroni Nastro Azzurro, an Italian beer owned by Molson Coors, launched its first TV campaign in two years this week. The campaign comes at a time when the demand for imported beers is growing, especially among younger drinkers. The campaign reflects an expected boon in wanderlust as pandemic restrictions ease, while also presenting the brand as a f...

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A simpler time. A time when life was far less complicated, a golden age in the memories of most Italians. This was a time when anything & everything seemed possible. A time to dance, to sing, to laugh, to be together. It was the age of the Italian Dream. The age of making Italy great again... in a simple and humble way. Not the way of Mussolini, bu...

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It may seem unbelievable to think, but pizza was not always Italy’s most iconic dish, in fact, in its earliest iterations, it was born in the streets, reserved for only the humblest of people. Pizza is arguably the world’s favorite fast food and today, it can be eaten anywhere, anytime. At home, on the street corner, or at a restaurant. Throughout...

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“The whole thing started when I saw a picture on a magazine cover,” said Burt Sugarman, a car guy and automotive entrepreneur turned Hollywood TV and movie producer. The year was 1965, and the magazine was Road & Track. Sugarman was 26 years old, and the car was the Ghia 230S, a curvaceous Italian coupe—the precursor to the production 450/SS conver...

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Strapped in tightly into the cramped cockpit, Barbara felt a jolt of exhilaration as the jet started to climb over 6,000 feet per minute and since this Aermacchi MB-339 jet was only going up to around 3,000 feet it took only half a minute to level off. Every bit of turbulence was felt due to the lack of cushioning on Barbara's seat but this lack of...

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When: April 6, 2022 at 6:00PM - Where: The Firehouse at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94123 - Details coming soon. A conversation with Riccardo Illy at the Firehouse, Fort Mason, on the occasion of the release of the English translation of his latest book THE ART OF EXCELLENT PRODUCTS: Enchanting Customers w...

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There are so many city in Italy that have food name. Gragnano, Parma, Colonnata, Gorgonzola, are only a bunch of them. Actually, there are some more, from the north to the south of Italy. To give food name to the city it is not an Italian linguistic affectation but something much more important.  When a city has food name we can easily recognized t...

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Composed of rosemary, garlic, and white wine, al potacchio appears on restaurant menus all around Le Marche, a central Italian region on Italy's Adriatic coast, just northeast of Rome. Pork, poultry, fish, and even eggplant can all be prepared al potacchio style.  One of Le Marche's oldest recipes, potacchio derives from the French word potage, a s...

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