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New York is the heart of the United States market and the place that can guarantee the success of a fashion label or a wine territory. It is the place where two of Italy’s iconic wines - Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classic - have decided to restart, after two years of Pandemic, shaking off the dust from the unused calendar of promotion for I...

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Thanks to its enveloping flavor, honey in Italian cuisine is used in combination with many foods both sweet and savory. One of the classic pairings is the one with cheese because the latter is a sugar-free food that contrasts with the sweetness of honey. Honey, however, can also be combined with fresh fruit and dried fruit, or inserted into cakes a...

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It’s a big day for Italy today, as payments platform Scalapay’s $497m Series B gives the country its first unicorn since the dotcom boom. Scalapay’s Series B comes just five months after its Tiger-led Series A last September, which pushed up its valuation after its seed round in January 2021. It launched in 2019.  Scalapay says its payment volumes...

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When Alice Etro was a little girl, she used to spend after-school hours with her father, Kean Etro, creative director of Etro men’s wear, playing with fabric samples in the design studio of the fashion brand that her grandfather Gimmo started in 1968. She’d create garments from off-cuts for her dolls and play with the tubes from the rolls of cloth....

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Bulgari‘s high jewelry collections are magnificent pieces of cultural significance. For 137 years, the Rome-based luxury house as the master of colored gemstones, diamonds, and details has created an instantly recognizable aesthetic that brought sparkle to la dolce vita, Hollywood celebrities, and US First Ladies. The iconic brand opened its first...

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Back in February 2021, we ranked international cuisines according to the number of tagged foods on Instagram, and Japanese cuisine topped the chart with over 15.5 million hashtags. Italian foods followed close with 14.7 million hashtags, and Indian cuisine placed third.  A year later, we decided to compare the numbers and see which foods and cuisin...

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In 2021, Italy’s food and beverage sector’s exports crossed the threshold of €50 billion, reaching a value of €52 billion (+11% compared to 2020), according to data provided by Agrifood Nomisma. As for the total Italian export sales, growth was even better (+18.2%), after the strong setback suffered in 2020. Exports from the food industry system (+...

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Lovers of the Venice Carnival know it means masks and costumes, but also tasty delicacies such as frittelle and galane. But only the most experienced know about mammalucchi: the mouth-watering fried, sugary pastry which began life as an accident. The original bakery in the lagoon city where you can have an authentic mammalucchi is Pastricceria Bar...

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While waiting for the inevitable impact of the price race of raw materials, energy and transport on wine, Italian wine exports continue to grow. In the first 11 months of 2021, they exceeded 6.5 billion euros (+12.6%), in line with the trend recorded since the beginning of last year. The numbers published today by Istat are comforting for a sector...

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Raise your glasses, February 18 is Global Drink Wine Day! So why not start planning your next Italian holiday while sipping some good Italian wine? And to help you in your planning, you may want to consider the best Italian regions for wine lovers.  Italy sure is one of the best countries in the world for wine tourism. It has approximately 400 vari...

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