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In Italy one of the most appreciated desserts which is also the most famous all over the world is panettone, undoubtedly. Italy’s gastronomic tradition comes with many regional and national dessert recipes. However, you should know that this product is together with pandoro a symbol of Italian Christmas. In fact, its presence on the table during th...

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There are classic Italian desserts whose creators have been lost in the mists of time or have gone on to become legends, and then there are desserts that bear the first and last name of their creators. Then there are traditional sweets that would have been forgotten or lost if not for a sole individual who kept them alive. There are also controvers...

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In the first 9 months of 2021 Italian wine sales in the off-trade channel grew in value – according to NielsenIQ data released by Federvini (association of Italian wine producers) – by +6.1% compared to the same period of 2020. This was mainly due to the strong impulse given by sparkling wines, whose sales increased by +27.5% – the dry Charmat and ...

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Automobili Lamborghini announces the Grand Opening of Lamborghini Greenwich, the legendary Italian company’s newest retail storefront in the U.S. Automobili Lamborghini Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stephan Winkelmann, attended the celebration and participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony with dealer principal, Robert DiStanislao. In addi...

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"Wine writers are boring, redundant and pretentious," opined a recent dinner guest. "Au contraire madame," came my retort, "we still have our uses." Critics and journalists are pretty good at sniffing out regions, and wineries, that deserve to be better known. We also excel at proselytizing overhyped – and overpriced – blue chip labels, but that's...

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Austin’s shopping scene continues to go upscale. Prada plans to set up shop in Austin, following fellow Italian fashion house Gucci into the Capital City. Prada, an iconic retail brand known for its high-end handbags, shoes, and clothing, is targeting Austin as part of a three- to five-year expansion in the U.S. “We are underinvested in the U.S.,”...

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Many legends revolve around the origins of panettone. First of all regarding Toni, the scullery boy in Ludovico il Moro’s kitchen who sacrificed his yeast on Christmas Eve to remedy the damage done by the Sforza head chef, giving life to the first great leavened product (the name would derive from “pan de Toni”). The true story, however, starts fro...

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Adoro i presepi. Fin da bambino ho avuto il compito di sistemare la Natività sotto il nostro albero. Ogni anno posizionavo delicatamente le figure di gesso dentro e intorno alla stalla. La Sacra Famiglia era dentro mentre i Magi, i pastori e gli animali li guardavano dall'esterno. In cima alla mangiatoia, ho appeso l'angelo per proteggere il bambin...

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Energica Motor Company S.p.A. , a leading manufacturer and distributor of high performance 100% battery-powered electric motorcycles, announced it had expanded its network to 20 dealers in the U.S. Energica motorcycles are manufactured in the heart of the Italian Motor Valley incorporating state-of-the-art, race-derived technology. Ideanomics (NASD...

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“We already have lots of regulars, and it’s only been four months,” Valerio Spadaro Guerra tells me when we meet on a rainy November morning in his shop, Casadora. “I thought it’d take longer to get customers, but it didn’t. The response has really been beyond my expectations. ” We are in Rome’s Prati, a stately area just north of St. Peter’s Squar...

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