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Personal preference and availability are strong influencers of which ethnic cuisines consumers tend to eat, but another factor also plays a role – ancestry. "Many Americans trace their family history – whether established for generations or more recently rooted – beyond U.S. borders," said Annika Stensson, director of research communications f...

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Italian startup Veve, a food-focused startup that wowed crowds at the Expo Milano 2015, has developed an ultra efficient system for the growth of vegetables in vertical rows that uses aeroponics technology. The technology allows 200 plants to be cultivated in one square meter, the equivalent of a traditional vegetable garden that is 20 square meter...

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By Sarah Small   Globally, about 13.5 million tons of pasta are produced annually. In the United States, four out of five people have pasta regularly stocked, according to the 2015 Passion for Pasta Food Waste & Sustainability Consumer Omnibus Survey.   While the United States and Europe make up the largest consumption base for pa...

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by Claudia Astarita   The food farming sector is still one of the engines of Italian economy. This is why it seems essential to make it innovative by investing on it. As a result, as reported by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the Italian government has given out 21 million Euros to improve the performance in this field, devoting the...

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E' italiano il primo brevetto al mondo di un robot flessibile, dalla forma che ricorda quella di un serpente: le due strutture "intrecciate" che lo costituiscono gli permettono di allungarsi e curvarsi evitando con precisione ogni ostacolo. Per questo il robot può essere utilizzato in medicina, per raggiungere un bersaglio preciso nel corpo umano s...

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Fondazione Bracco fa squadra con la NIAF-National Italian American Foundation, lanciando una borsa di ricerca del valore di 100.000 dollari, rivolta a tutti i cittadini americani di origine italiana e agli Italiani con residenza permanente negli Stati Uniti. I candidati devono essere in possesso di una laurea o specializzazione post laurea, e devo...

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By Mauro Battocchi   The momentum of cultural exchange between Naples and San Francisco has been going strong for some time. The exchange has included rare jewels and costumes, cooperation on human rights, the startup scene and, of course, the historic joint performance of Verdi's Requiem by the SF Opera and Naple's Teatro di San Carlo. &nb...

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Barilla will present pasta made with a 3D printer at the Cibus 2016 International Food Exhibition in Parma May 9-12. Barilla said it has been working on the project for four years in collaboration with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). In 2015 a prototype was made with 3D printer technology that managed to pr...

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Part of creating a more sustainable food economy is finding uses for food matter after it leaves the table. Take citrus for example. Did you know that 700,000 tons of citrus rinds are discarded every year? What if those rinds could be created into strong fiber to make brilliant fabrics?   Not only would it give the food matter a useful after...

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The SME Education Foundation is lending its support to the Italian Trade Agency's by helping promote its 2015 call for papers for the agency's Italian Machine Tool Technology Awards.   The aim of the program is to enrich the engineering education of students and to advance knowledge on issues of importance within the industry to the next gen...

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