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Before Fiat married Chrysler it was just Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, but most people probably would have told you it stood for this: “Fix It Again, Tony.” My dad took this as a personal challenge and adopted a 1979 Spider 2000 in the ’90s. The car’s still in the family. Actually, it practically raised me. Listen, the Mazda Miata wasn’t alw...

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Around 35% of fresh-produce purchases in Italy are still made from specialist stores and stallholders – a figure that rises to 51% in the south of the country, according to research from Bain & Company. Supermarket chains have not yet been able to capture this €16 billion-valued business, as butchers, grocers, fishmongers, bakeries and street marke...

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The minute you tell an Italian that you met the actual Giovanni Rana, his or her face will light up as though you just said you had coffee with Santa Claus and thereby confirmed that he is, in fact, real. Everywhere you go in Italy, you are greeted by the warm presence of the famous fresh pasta-maker. The 79-year-old’s caring smile is on giant bill...

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Un mercato con logiche distributive diverse da quelle europee, dove i consumatori sono assai differenziati da stato a stato e tra grandi città e piccole località, tra metropoli e provincia. Non solo: taglie e gusti sono spesso lontane dai nostri. Però è il più grande mercato al mondo per l’abbigliamento e l’intimo non fa eccezione. Parliamo degli S...

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A series of special events organized to promote and share the culinary excellence and food-and-wine knowledge of Italy as a distinctive trait of our identy and culture. The main themes of the second edition of the Week are quality, sustainability, culture, food security, the right to food, education, identity, territory and biodiversity.  The secon...

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When Italians first began coming to this country in numbers, back in the 1880s and 1890s, many of them did what Irish and German and other immigrants did before them and went into business serving the food and drink of the old country to their fellow immigrants. Italian food and drinkways, being rather more alien to the prevailing American standard...

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Firriato’s Nero D’Avola Chiaramonte is a big, powerful wine with lots of rich layers. It’s made from the Nero D’Avola grape, which is grown primarily in Sicily. You’ll want to give it time in the glass. I had this beauty with grilled yellow peppers, zucchini and Sicilian sausage from DeVitis Italian Market. It was the perfect match as the grilled m...

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Fashion designer Valentino Garavani has received the American Academy of Achievement’s ‘Golden Plate Award’. The Italian creative and co-founder of the luxury fashion house Valentino took to Instagram to share a photo of himself accepting the award from actor Jeremy Irons in London. The caption featured a quotation from the designer that read: “I a...

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According to the legislation which was published last month, manufacturers must indicate on pack the address of the Italian factory where a food product was either manufactured or packaged. Italy is also trialling mandatory origin labelling for dairy products along with other member states such as France, Greece and Finland. But this legislation ae...

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When architect Peter Marino was tasked with renovating the Bulgari flagship on New York's Fifth Avenue, he looked to the luxury jewelry brand's Roman roots. Occupying a corner spot in the iconic Crown Building (designed in 1921 by the same architects who completed Grand Central Terminal), the store's new criss-crossed and rosette-studded façade is...

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