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Over the past two decades, Neapolitan-style pizza — a disc of naturally fermented dough that’s topped with tomato sauce and cheese, and then baked — has gone from trend to popular mainstay on menus in pizzerias and casual restaurants throughout the U.S. And aside from the obvious factors (the simple deliciousness of a margherita pizza), there’s at...

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Parks and Recreation's Ben Wyatt (played by the eternally awkward Adam Scott) is a man of niche tastes. He loves civil service. He's in love with show protagonist Leslie Knope. And, perhaps most notably, he has an undying adoration for calzones that steadily became one of the show's longest running jokes. The fact that Wyatt vehemently prefers calz...

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When Italian-born Ettore Bugatti would go to work as a car manufacturer, he would do so on horseback. The maker of high-performance cars would incorporate his love of horses right in front of the car he would make. The grill is still shaped like a horseshoe. "Horses, horsepower seemed to be a winning combination," said Alan Rosenblum, who owns two...

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Italian jewelry brand Pomellato has recently opened a beautiful flagship store in Los Angeles on Rodeo Drive. “Rodeo Drive is the iconic intersection of luxury and tourism on the West Coast,” says Nathalie Diamantis, Pomellato’s CEO. “This boutique allows Pomellato not only to increase its visibility in this key market, but more importantly to have...

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The Belpaese is famous worldwide for high fashion thanks to the presence of an extremely well established and fervid artistic and manufacturing culture. Italy has countless schools of fashion and crafts, as well as good designers and artisans with incredible craftsmanship. In addition, it is famous for the undisputed quality of its raw materials, e...

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Italian fashion tycoon Brunello Cucinelli, best known for selling cashmere sweaters for thousands of dollars each, has unveiled his latest creative project: a fully restored medieval hamlet nestled in a valley in central Umbria. Cucinelli showed hundreds of invited journalists and guests around the 13th century settlement of Solomeo on Tuesday, hav...

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Dane is joined ‘on the road’ with the General Manager of Italian Village, Joe Deininger, to talk about celebrating 91 years for The Italian Village, Chicago specific Italian foods and their 21st Annual Ferrari Fest coming up this weekend. The Fest showcases 40 to 60 Ferrari’s in a family fun atmosphere with delicious Italian food. All money made at...

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“The wind that comes off the sea in Calabria is magic,” says Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, Louis Vuitton’s master perfumer, of the region he has visited for the past five years to create the new men’s fragrance Sur La Route. “In February, during the bergamot harvest, it’s mild in the morning, and there are so many smells coming from the grass and tr...

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In all the latitudes of the world, six out of ten Italian food products reaching our dining tables are forgeries. It is a matter of ‘Italian sounding’, a phenomenon that involves the use of the geographical origin and the brand Italy, without having anything with it. It is estimated that Rome loses about sixty billion euros a year due to these forg...

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August Wine Group, a Seattle-based importer of industry-leading wineries and family-owned boutique estates in Europe and South America, today announced an exclusive partnership with prominent Italian producer Fantinel to import its wines, Tenuta Sant’ Helena, Borgo Tesis and Fantinel Sparkling. Fantinel is a third-generation family winery founded i...

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