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Publisher Smith Street Books released “Mangia: How to Eat Your Way Through Italy” worldwide in March 2025, offering readers a passport to Italy’s 20 distinct regions, each with its own culinary dialect. The author, Maria Pasquale, is an award-winning food journalist with over a decade of immersion in Italian culture. She has crafted a work that goe...

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Inclusivity is an essential idea in today’s world, but we hardly associate it with food. However, respecting diversity and making sure, quite literally, that everyone has a “seat at the table,” regardless of background or ability, has become an inherently central goal of modern cuisine. An inclusive kitchen recognizes and values different food cult...

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Event date: The May 14 2025, 18:00 (Local time) - Place: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - For a fee: No Antonio Fava, Maestro of Commedia dell’arte, will present his book “Vita Morte e Resurrezione di Pulcinella” (Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection) at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Laughing Stock Th...

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I stayed with my grandparents in Italy over the winter. It wasn’t just a family visit—I wanted some downtime from my busy freelance schedule in Dublin and also to bask in the warmth of my grandparents’ company. I’d always heard stories about Italy’s charm, but experiencing it day by day was something else entirely. What struck me most was how it fe...

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Lucinda Scala Quinn’s new book, “Mother Sauce” highlights Italian American family recipes and the women who created them, offering a tribute to the culinary contributions of immigrant women. The book delves into the history of Italian American cooking, focusing on the stories of women who immigrated to the United States and used their kitchens as c...

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Ferrari certainly has the luxury, capacity, and budget to pretty much do whatever it wants to when it comes to developing its new sports cars and SUVs. The brand has enjoyed a string of successful model launches, including its first lifted four-door four-seater, the Purosangue, and now it approaches a new frontier: its first all-electric vehicle. C...

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Leaders in Perry hope a new Italian manufacturing company will boost their economy by $14 million. Perry is trying to replace the 1,200 jobs lost last year when Tyson Foods closed. "It's nice to have something to celebrate," said Sven Peterson, Perry city administrator. The city of Perry is celebrating a unanimous city council vote Monday night and...

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Twenty years ago, parts of Bari were a mafia stronghold. Today, thanks to a group of no-nonsense nonnas and an anticorruption mayor, the capital city of Puglia is Europe’s latest short-break star. With flights from Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh, here you can feast on superb pizza for under five euros in a 16th-century piazza bedecked by fairy lig...

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Organizing a conclave is no simple task, and Rome is preparing to host one with three significant challenges. We've previously written about the possibility of three Italian cardinals being "papabili" and the influence of three other Italian cardinals, though over 80. But there's another Italian cardinal who deserves attention, as he is at the cent...

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A trip to Italy may be out of reach for your budget, but you might feel like you've stamped your passport with a trip to the Italian-influenced restaurant Casa de Amici in the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Bossier City. Casa de Amici is one of the 40-plus restaurants participating in 318 Restaurant Week sponsored by Visit Shreveport-Bossier. KTBS 3...

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I’m draped over a couple of foam floats, drifting through the steamy outdoor pool of the Terme di Saturnia resort in southern Tuscany. In these same sulphuric thermal waters, Roman soldiers once bathed to recover from the ravages of war. 2,000 years later, the water’s therapeutic benefits are still lauded, though instead of boasting their ability t...

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In one amazing two-year burst of inspiration, Giuseppe Verdi composed three of the world’s most beloved operas that set a new path for the art form and secured his place in the opera pantheon. Maestro Robert Butts will discuss “Verdi’s Trilogy: Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and La Traviata,” 2 PM Wednesday, May 14 at the Ocean County Library Long Beach I...

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