WTI Magazine #61    2015 May, 29Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: John Cabot University   A comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition is currently being set up in the gorgeous complex of Museums of San Domenico, in Forlì. It aims at presenting the striking career of one of the most famous and requested Italian painters of the turn of...

One reason Sicilians tend to identify with Sicily first and Italy (a distant) second? Sicilian food. The same goes for Veneto in the north or Puglia in the south. Italy is a young country -- it only celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011. Despite the successful export of the "Italian restaurant," the idea of a unified Italian cuis...

Penelope, "art name" of Chiara Cocchi, has been invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco for a solo exhibition in its gallery. After several shows in Miami (Florida), Sarasota (Florida), and Italy, the artist has conceived and assembled a new exhibition entitled We are All Made of Stardust, which will be on view from January 15 un...

Privately owned by the fourth generation of its founding family Parma, Italy-based Pasta maker Barilla, has achieved ubiquity, both in Europe and the U.S. Founded in 1877, it's about the closest to an authentic experience as you can get from mass produced pasta in a box.   But for all its success Barilla isn't resting on its laurels. It anno...

Eataly may soon be found at Italy's Autogrills, the restaurant chain found at every major service station off the Italian highway (autostrada).   Eataly's founder Oscar Farinetti told the Foreign Press Club of Milan that the first "Eataly for Autogrill" is set to open by the end of 2014 at Secchia Ovest, near Modena, thanks to a franchise de...

Un'inedita sul podio della Qualità della vita 2014: a conquistare il primo posto della classifica sulla vivibilità nelle province italiane è Ravenna, da anni nel gruppo di testa ma mai in zona medaglie, salvo nell'anno del debutto della ricerca, il 1990, quando arrivò terza dopo Belluno e Gorizia.   La ricerca del Sole 24 Ore del Lunedì - ch...

"Ciao, bello," yells a young, Italian man in my direction. "Hello, beautiful," he's saying, as his friends crane their necks and loosen their jaws in awe. They're not aiming their ardor at me but at the car I'm riding in — a vintage 1962 Alfa Romeo.   In gleaming, tomato red, it's a finely-curved marvel of style, history, technolog...

di Simone Arminio   CINQUE milioni di fatturato, e tutto per merito di un cane. Anche se, a dirla tutta, al fiuto dell'animale per i tartufi ha fatto il paio quello di Luigi Dattilo, all'epoca 17enne, per gli affari. La prima svolta per la Appennino Food di Savigno è arrivata nel 1998, con l'avvio della produzione gastronomica di salse, crem...

By Ellen Bhang A special bottle can change your life. Just ask Matt Mollo, co-owner of the North End wine shop The Wine Bottega. That head-turning pour for Mollo was a fizzy red lambrusco, which he had in Italy in 2010. He and his wife, Adriana, were at a salumeria in Mantova, Lombardy, across the Po River from Emilia-Romagna, the region most asso...

La regione Emilia Romagna si rivolge a giovani laureati o artisti o musicisti diplomati con cittadinanza italiana: si può infatti fare domanda di borsa di studio Fulbright per specializzarsi negli Stati Uniti. Le borse di studio Fulbright, offerte per progetti di studio, ricerca ed insegnamento nelle migliori università statunitensi, sono riservat...