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Alla conquista di New York con i panzerotti dal cuore orobico. È il progetto dell’imprenditore di Dalmine Giovanni Bonati che, insieme al cugino Angelo Magni, di Concorezzo, a giorni inaugureranno il primo locale a Manhattan. «L’idea vera e propria — chiarisce Bonati — venuta ad Angelo la scorsa estate che poi mi ha chiesto una mano per svilupparla...

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L’olio d’oliva ambasciatore dell’agroalimentare negli Stati Uniti. È la riflessione di ASSITOL, l’Associazione italiana dell’industria olearia, sugli ultimi dati delle esportazioni, elaborati dall’ICE di New York, che nel 2018 colloca ai primissimi posti nell’interscambio Italia-Usa proprio l’olio d’oliva. In particolare, nell’export di agroaliment...

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The Pursuit of Excellence at Castello Banfi inspired research to produce wines more naturally. Several of Europe’s foremost enologists joined the president of The World and The Italian Enological Societies at Castello Banfi to pioneer technology to reduce sulfites, eliminate histamines and errant enzymes, perfect vineyard improvements, develop nitr...

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A solitary woman dressed in dark regal hues, her fingers adorned with  topazes and opals,  a voice as deep and smooth as the softest of velvets. She sits in a room scented like opium and incense, twilight cloaking everything in purple and orange. In front of her, there they are: beautifully decorated, colorful, mysterious, frightening.   This is wh...

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Il Bisonte Unveils First New York Unit, a Flagship The Italian leather goods brand returns to the U.S. to plant a flag in Manhattan. Il Bisonte's Bleecker Street flagship offers leather care services. Florentine leather goods brand Il Bisonte this week unveiled its first store in New York, a two-level 1,940-square-foot flagship on Bleecker Street....

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The lands that surround Catania and Mount Etna in Sicily have been farmed since the Neolithic; indeed, they’re home to the oldest agricultural civilization on the island. The land is so fertile thanks to volcanic soils; vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain, the highest active volcano in Europe, and the broad plain o...

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Among Italian liqueurs we can find Nocino that is obtained from walnut husks placed in infusion. It is a distillation procedure customary of many European countries that gives a drink with an intense walnut flavour, but which in Italy has a much more remote tradition. From the ancient Romans we have learnt that the British population of the Picts u...

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Amaro, Italy’s signature bitter liqueur, is prized for all the barks and herbs that famously aid digestion after a big meal. But the spirit offers much more than its bitter reputation. “Each amaro is made with so many different ingredients—spices, roots, peels, barks, flowers—they have a lot of complexity on their own,” says Joe Campanale, owner an...

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The marriage of Italy and Detroit is producing some interesting DNA. All you have to do is look at the dashing Maserati Levante and Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUVs I'm hanging out with this week. That’s right, Detroit, I said Maserati and Alfa SUVs. Since the Italians bought Chrysler, the Auburn Hills family dinner table has gotten a lot bigger. Christmas...

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When a non-Italian thinks of Italian cuisine, he or she typically thinks in terms of wine and pasta, and of course pizza. But I think the real protagonist of the Italian table is bread. The variety that is available, region by region, might be greater than that of wine although not as great as pasta, whose selection expands not only according to gr...

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