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Seventy two years after launching the iconic Vespa scooter, Italian motor vehicle company Piaggio has unveiled its newest creation: A robot designed to help you get around without a car at all. Piaggio Fast Forward, Piaggio’s American sibling established in 2015, has been testing the Gita, a two-foot-high, two-wheeled mobile carrying robot, out of...

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Dangle a paper cutout of Italy in the air, then slice it in half with a machete (horizontally; slightly angled). The cut will likely run along a line connecting Rome to Pescara. An excellent east-west highway connecting these cities (in two hours) passes wildly beautiful landscapes between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas. Most of this journey move...

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The global supremacy of Italian pasta is in danger of disappearing, undermined by the aggressiveness of foreign competitors. Despite the fact that Italy maintains its record of production with 3.36 million tons produced, and is also firmly in first place in the exports rankingwith 1.9 million tons, the great leap forward made in recent years by oth...

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Approximately 95% of Italians consider themselves regular coffee drinkers, with the average spend per person on coffee totalling €259.40 per year. That's according to the Coffee Monitor, published by Nomisma’s Social Monitoring Observatory in collaboration with Datalytics, which polled 1,000 consumers on their coffee-drinking habits. Among coffee d...

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On Saturday, June 2, the inaugural Maverick custom Scrambler build will cross the auction block at MECUM's Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa. This 100% unique motorcycle was designed by renowned tattoo artist, GRIME, to showcase his vision of individuality and freedom in moving metal, to ultimately benefit the char...

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A few years ago, while he was staying just outside Milan during a whirlwind tour through northern Italy’s vineyard, Ray Osborne quickly took to one very widespread local custom: spritzes in the afternoon. “You’d be out on a piazza, the town square, and everyone would have a spritz in their hands,” said Osborne, sommelier and assistant general manag...

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C'è anche una forte presenza made in Italy all’International Franchise Expo, in programma a New York dal 31 maggio al 2 giugno prossimi. L’evento conta oltre 20mila visitatori e 450 espositori e rappresenta il punto di riferimento dell’industria del franchising in Nord America. All’interno dell’esposizione saranno una decina le società italiane pre...

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Italian food is the most popular ethnic cuisine in the U.S., with 61 percent of Americans reporting they eat it regularly (the numbers are 50 percent for Mexican food and 36 percent for Chinese food). Assembling a list of 99 essential Italian-American foods may be a fool's errand, but we did it anyway, and after much delicious debate. ("How can you...

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La pizza non conosce crisi: è un business che in Italia dà lavoro a centinaia di migliaia di persone. I numeri parlano chiaro: centotrentamila imprese coinvolte. E centomila addetti a tempo pieno che salgono a 200mila nei fine settimana. Per sfornare circa otto milioni di pizze al giorno, quasi tre miliardi in un anno. Per un fatturato di 15 miliar...

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Cresce la presenza del Trentino a New York. Nella settimana appena conclusa sei aziende manifatturiere della provincia di Trento, assieme a Trentino sviluppo e sotto l'egida dell’Agenzia Ice, hanno partecipato alla ICFF, una delle più importanti fiere mondiali del design di interni e del mobile, a cui hanno preso parte quest’anno oltre 36.000 fra p...

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