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After spending so many years abroad, I think today it is more frequent to find foreigners associating Italian culinary traditions to "Gelato" rather than to "pizza" and "spaghetti".   In case you are interested in learning whether there is a reason for that or not, please be aware that in Italy, in Emilia Romagna, there is a beautiful Gelato...

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We could translate the terms benessere (well-being) or buonvivere (good living) literally, but that wouldn't quite relate their full meanings. Here in the Romagna region, it encompasses all the elements of a healthy lifestyle. Not just a healthy body, but a healthy mind, a healthy community, and a healthy environment.   I stayed at the Grand...

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Though they are often mistakenly used interchangeably, balsamic vinaigrette and balsamic vinegar are not one and the same. Period. A vinaigrette is a cooking sauce or salad dressing made by mixing vinegar, oil and seasoning so balsamic vinaigrette should therefore presumably be made from balsamic vinegar but since the vinaigrette is so mass produce...

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"La simbolica data d'inizio dell'emigrazione italiana nelle Americhe può essere considerata il 4 ottobre 1852, quando venne fondata a Genova la Compagnia Transatlantica per la navigazione a vapore con le Americhe. Fra il 1880 e il 1915 approdano negli Stati Uniti quattro milioni di italiani, su 9 milioni circa di emigranti che scelsero di attravers...

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by Claudia Baroncelli   Beyond monuments and churches, palaces and museums Italy also boasts many wonderful and ancient bridges where engineering truly meets nature. From the North to the South, Swide has rounded up some of the most enchanting and beautiful bridges across Italy.   There are some spots in Italy where you can truly feel...

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The Italian Trade Commission is counting down to the celebration of LAMBRUSCO, a stellar Italian wine, this June 27th featuring some of Italy's and the US's most celebrated Chefs!   THE SCOOP: Chef Cesare Casella, Dean of Italian Studies at the International Cuinary Center and leader of Itchefs-GVCI in the USA will once more be a part of th...

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If Italy's most celebrated modernist chef is coming over to make brunch, don't be surprised if he shows up packing a sleek nitrous oxide siphon. It's just for the bread crumb foam.   Massimo Bottura, the energetic chef and owner of the three-Michelin-star Osteria Francescana, in Modena, arrived at my Brooklyn kitchen with a motley tool kit....

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US travel agents put their enthusiastic stamp of approval on the scenery, history, hospitality and food and wine of Romagna. On a whistle-stop tour of Romagna's hilltop and seaside highlights a group of travel agents and tour operators from all over the US tasted the delights of Romagna.   Hosted by Best of Romagna, US travel trade operator...

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Il Bologna calcio potrebbe diventare una società di proprietà americana. Nella notte il consiglio d'amministrazione della società ha infatti deciso di accettare l'offerta arrivata dalla cordata americana guidata dall'avvocato Joe Tacopina, voltando le spalle, così, a quella che aveva avanzato Massimo Zanetti, patron della Segafredo, già socio di mi...

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Bologna Business School, formerly Alma Graduate School, the Master program of the University of Bologna, held a showcase of the new 2015/2016 edition Food & Wine MBA this Columbus Day at the world-renowned Italian symbol of Food and Wine, Eataly's La Scuola Grande.   During the workshop, potential candidates learned about the program, a...

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