If your budget can’t quite stretch to the stunning shoreline of the Amalfi coast this summer, fear not, as an exhilarating new Prime Video crime drama will transport you to one of Italy’s most beautiful settings instead. Hotel Costiera is what we're calling the new Death In Paradise - and it's set to seriously shake up your summer. The drama centre...

In a culture obsessed with defying age, watching women reclaim their natural beauty is such a radically cool form of expression. It's more than just taking ownership of their bodies; it is paving the way for other women to feel empowered enough to do the same. Actress Lorraine Bracco, 70, is doing just that. Known for her roles in Goodfellas and Th...

  La battaglia legale a difesa di Cristoforo Colombo continua negli Stati Uniti, questa volta in Nevada e Massachusetts L’Italia nomina Marco Peronaci nuovo Ambasciatore a Washington DC La creazione di un distretto storico nella Little Italy di San Francisco in California La Festa Italiana torna nel South End di Springfield in Massachusetts con la...

As RT enters Max’s Sandwich Shop in Crouch Hill, north London, owner Max Halley is there to greet us, glass of riesling in hand. The man who reinvented the humble sandwich, and has published several recipe books celebrating it, has an infectious passion, a booming laugh and swears frequently. His intimate wood-panelled establishment attracts huge q...

Stanley Tucci is heading back to Italy after Nat Geo renewed his docuseries Tucci In Italy for a second season. The series, which premiered last month, has been picked up for another five episodes. In the first season, Tucci explored regions including Tuscany, Lombardy, Abruzzo, Trentino-Alto Adige and Lazio. In the second season he will venture fo...

In episode three of Tucci in Italy, Stanley Tucci arrives in Trentino Alto Adige, a region in the north shaped by soaring peaks, strong cultural traditions, and layers of identity shaped by more than just nationality. Here, Austrian heritage meets Italian life, and the German language is still heard on the street in many areas. The food, like the p...

In Episode Two of Tucci in Italy, Stanley Tucci heads north to Lombardy. It’s a region that represents finance, manufacturing, and Milanese fashion, but Tucci is looking at what’s coming out of the kitchens. He visits Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, and the striking plains of the Pianura Padana, meeting the people helping to maintain Italy’s obsession wit...

Amazingly, after watching four episodes of Tucci in Italy I have not booked a ticket to Italia to try some of the delicious food that has been showcased. I’m resigned to longing for it from the TV screen, though Tucci in Italy episode 4, “Abruzzo,” is not making it easy.  An isolated region because of its difficult topography — Tucci himself said t...

What if eating became an act of memory? This is the challenge taken up by Stanley Tucci in his documentary series “Tucci in Italy”, a journey as intimate as it is universal. In this culinary fresco by National Geographic, broadcast on Disney+, Stanley Tucci doesn’t play a role. He lives, he searches, he tastes. Born of Italian-American parents, he...

When hot cultural trends come to mind, the frumpy, feisty Italian grandmothers of my childhood aren’t usually at the top of the list. And yet "Nonnas," the breakaway Netflix film starring these very kinds of characters, has been the no. 1 film in the rankings and viewed more than 20 million times since its release, continuing to make headlines and...