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Christmas is finally here and the heavens know how badly we need some seasonal cheer this year. It’s been a hard 12 months and we deserve some peace, quite and pandoro, let me tell you. What’s beautiful about this time …

We of L’Italo-Americano are great supporters of traditional knowledge and heritage, and it really couldn’t be any different. For Italian-Americans, maybe more than for European Italians, discovering and appreciating their origins and family history is not only a moment of …

Mistral made of Gragnano, a town of just under 30.000 not far from beautiful Naples, the historical heart of dry pasta-making in Italy. But we’re not talking about the dry wind born in the South of France that graces the …

Home, family: there’s nothing quite like it, in the end. There’s nothing quite like going back and discovering where you truly come from. I sometimes asked myself how it may be, this finding your roots and the essence of who …

To non-Italians, the name Stromboli probably means very little. The 12-sq-km island is part of the Aeolian archipelago and is home to not more than 300 people, divided into two small villages. Most notably, though, Stromboli is home to the …

Finally, Italy is up and working again. Our borders are open to all other EU countries, stores and restaurants finally welcome customers and patrons,  and our museums, too, are able to display their treasures to the world again. We are …

Sardinia, cradle of history and special traditions, holds within also plenty of culinary secrets. Let’s ideally travel to the west of the island. We are in the enchanting area of Marmilla, a small region at the very edges of the …

What a peculiar summer this is: if it weren’t for the unbearable heat, it wouldn’t feel like a summer at all. Don’t get me wrong, Italians didn’t renounce to their Ferragosto-by-the-sea tradition, in fact, they’ve been letting loose a tad …

When current mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi was elected, she made it quite  clear that banning botticelle was one of her aims. These traditional horse-drawn carriages  are  as romantic as they are, alas, unjust. Throughout the years, episodes of animals …

Ah! Beauty!  The gift of the gods to their subjects, inspiration to literature, poetry and art of all forms and colors. Its canons may change from decade to decade,   but its essence remains the same, lifeblood of human creativity …