There are many events all year round throughout Tuscany, but many are concentrated during the summer. Many sagre, food festivals, start in early summer and continue on through the fall as local specialties (truffles, wine, olive oil) come into season. If you are coming to Tuscany during other periods of the year, don’t worry as [...]

Maybe no wine or tasty Italian desserts. No speaking dirty words. Abstinence from traditional pleasures. How do Italians prepare for 40 days of self-inflicted deprivation? Throw a party that lasts for weeks! From the Epiphany on January 6 to the beginning of Quaresima (Lent—derived from the Latin term Quadragesima, or “the forty days”), il Carnevale [...]

Premium Italian coffee company illycaffe Spa is teaming up with Coca-Cola Co. to introduce a new ready-to-drink coffee beverage, taking on Pepsi Cola and its venture with Starbucks.The joint venture combines illycaffe’s knowledge of the coffee business with Coca-Cola’s marketing experience and distribution channels.
The product will be based on illyfreddo, a cold coffee drink sold [...]

The first time Enzo Ferrari witnessed a car racing event, he immediately knew what his life was destined to be. And even if his life-long works are very popular among car enthusiasts, never had he expected that his name would be one that is so coveted by everyone who’s anyone in today’s society.
Around the time [...]

Carolyn Hart reviews Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food by John Dickie and A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain by Paul Richardson
In 1931, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Futurist Movement, launched the Manifesto of Futurist Cooking at the Taverna del Santoplata in Turin, a restaurant constructed from floor [...]

Italian people think that genetically modified food are not good for health – it’s what comes out from a survey drawn up by Coldiretti, the main Italian farmers’ organization, in collaboration with Ispo. In particular, among the people interviewed, the 74 per cent of them is against this kind of products. In this latest days [...]