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“Gabriele Salvatores is the ideal artist to preside over the current edition of this festival. His love for our country, his support and his important contribution to our culture knows no boundaries.” With these words, blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor Franco Nero, introduced Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter, Gabrie...

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The excellence is menswear has become harder to discern. These days, branding has become all-powerful. In fact, men, ever more than women, have adopted brands seeking quality and style. Faced with an indigestible number of choices, the American male consumer often retreats to the safety net of a familiar brand name. Henceforth, the message must be...

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Have you heard of San Marzano tomatoes? They're considered the Ferrari or Prada of canned tomato varieties, and loyalists say they are well worth the higher price tag compared to other canned Italian tomatoes or domestically produced canned tomatoes. Recently there has been some controversy about this famed Italian food product, so we set out to fi...

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Italian cuisine might be more closely associated with long, lazy sit-down lunches with multiple courses, stretching out over many enjoyable hours. But Italiy also excels at street food, a fact that's just been recognised in a new index published by travel site My Late Deals. Rome and Palermo were named as some of the top 20 street food cities in th...

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The New York office of the Italian Trade Agency announced today the launch of its first-ever public relations campaign to communicate and educate the American trade and consumers on Italian spirits production. “Italy is remembered mainly for Fashion and Food & Wine. We are in the 8th position as suppliers of alcoholic beverages to the USA ($177 Mil...

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Nuovo anno e nuovi progetti di promozione e sviluppo all’orizzonte per l’Aceto Balsamico di Modena IGP. Il primo appuntamento che vedrà impegnato il Consorzio di Tutela dell’IGP a livello istituzionale è per il 17 e 18 Febbraio alla Stazione Leopolda di Firenze in occasione dell’Anteprima Chianti Classico Collection, dove esso si presenterà insieme...

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Of course there are secrets for Italian recipes you should follow if you want to make a bona fide Italian dish! In the  first part of this series, we looked at desserts. Now it’s time to take a closer look to  the rest of the menu! Are you ready? These are some rules of thumb to follow when choosing to prepare a basic Italian dish. If you happen to...

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“Moor heads” or “teste di moro” are colorful, ceramic vases that represent the face of a man and a woman, with a solemn crown. A quite common feature of terraces and gardens in big and small towns in Sicily, they are made by skilled local craftspeople and have spread across Italy over time. The most famous ones are from Caltagirone, a center of exc...

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Former Carrabba’s Italian Grill president Michael Kappit put it simply. If there’s one thing the Italian casual-dining industry understands, it’s competition. But unlike many of its segment peers, like Applebee’s, Red Robin, Chili’s, and so forth, Italian concepts are surrounded not so much by each other, but by independents. Kappitt said for every...

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Brunello, Nobile di Montepulciano and Chianti Classico are most appreciated in the United States, Barolo and Barbaresco in Canada, Amarone in Germany, Prosecco in the UK, and Asti in Russia. These are the trends of the most renown PDO Italian wines, or rather the more export-oriented ones, according to a research – carried out by Nomisma’s Wine Mon...

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