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Yes, I enjoy booze made from artichokes. Cynar (pronounced chee-nar) is an Italian liqueur that can be found in many Pittsburgh bars. It is made from 13 different herbs and plants, but the most notable is the artichoke.  The bittersweet liqueur has been around since the 1950s and it’s actually a relative newcomer into the world of amaros, aka bitte...

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Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian luxury fashion house, has teamed up with Farfetch to launch its capsule collection XXX. The exclusive collection is sold only on farfetch.com and at the Miami boutique in the Miami Design District. Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori created an unconventional wardrobe of contemporary and urban pieces matching the ide...

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Italy is known and appreciated all over the world for the excellent quality of its products. In particular with regard to wine. In fact, Italy is a world leader in the production of high quality wine. Italian Traditions will guide you on the discovery of the best Italian wines. Here we will analyze what the wine produced in Italy consists of and we...

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A rare 850 gramme white truffle was auctioned for €85,000 in the Italian region of Alba on Sunday, with the anonymous Hong Kong buyer paying nearly 30 times this year's market price for smaller nuggets. The annual auction held in the region near Turin saw the unusually large white truffle sold at a price that would value it at €100 per gramme. "The...

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Ermenegildo Zegna XXXItalian luxury brand Ermenegildo Zegna has launched an exclusive partnership with Farfetch to release the Ermenegildo Zegna XXX U.S. capsule collection on the luxury fashion shopping platform in the States. Ermenegildo Zegna XXX, or XXX, delivers a modern wardrobe that matches the versatility of contemporary living with a mix o...

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Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them — picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat — were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean. And even though it has been years since...

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Fashion, like people, is fickle. At the whim of an ever-changing trend cycle, the industry forces its most loyal followers to live in a constant state of transition, whether that means being disappointed by the induction of new creative directors at iconic brands (#oldcéline) or stressed by the growing list of things we "need" for each coming seaso...

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You could say Ferrari NV made a hot rod for its own back. When the Italian sports car maker started selling the $2.1 million LaFerrari Aperta convertible in 2016, it helped supercharge revenue and profit growth. Unfortunately the problem with limited editions is that shipments ultimately end. The slowdown of the supercar’s sales contributed to Ferr...

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At the end of 2017, US foreign direct investment in Italy represented 7.4% of all FDI stocks in Italy, equivalent to a value of US$ 413.2 billion. With a stock of US$ 30.7 billion of US investment in 2017, Italy improved its position in the ranking of countries attracting investment from the US to 23rd place compared to 26th in 2016, with a share t...

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With rain forecast for the next few days, and as 1st November is a public holiday here in Italy, why not spend some time in the kitchen making a traditional Tuscan slice known as castagnaccio. It is very easy to make, a simple slice made with chestnut flour, pine-nuts, sultanas and rosemary and like many other traditional Tuscan recipes, it has bee...

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