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I might lose my credentials without some clarification: Italians love nuts year-round, but when fall arrives, nuts take center stage. While not as romanticized as the autumnal grape and olive harvests, the variety and quality of nuts cultivated in Italy …

The Main Streets Across the World report is a key benchmark in the retail industry. Launched in 1988, it evaluates and ranks the most expensive retail streets based on prime rental values. Its 2024 edition offers a comprehensive analysis of …

The Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World, which concluded recently, invited us to reflect on what root cuisine truly means in the modern era. Held from November 16 to 22, the ninth edition focused on the theme“Mediterranean Diet …

Everyone loves Italian food,  but as it turns out, pronouncing the names of some of its most iconic dishes is not as easy as enjoying them. The topic piqued the interest of the people at Preply, a popular online language …

Southern Italy, particularly the regions of Puglia and Sicily, is grappling with a mounting agricultural crisis. Recurring droughts, rising temperatures, and diseases such as xylella fastidiosa have ravaged traditional crops like olives, grapes, and citrus fruits. The situation has reached …

Tipping is a straightforward process in many countries, but in Italy, it’s less so. For Italians visiting the US, where tipping is customary and expected, the experience can be uncomfortable and unfamiliar because Italy, and much of Europe, tipping has …

The debate over the authenticity of Italian cuisine recently took center stage again, fueled by comments from two historians, Alessandro Barbero and Alberto Grandi.  The controversy began in 2023, when Alberto Grandi, a professor of food history at the University …

During the Renaissance, the study of human anatomy underwent a groundbreaking transformation that reshaped both visual arts and science. This era, particularly in Italy, marked a departure from medieval conventions that relied heavily on secondhand knowledge and theoretical understandings of …

Leonardo da Vinci’s name is synonymous with art and innovation, with the essence itself of the Renaissance, a time of discovery, intellectual curiosity, and investigation.  Not many know, however, that he also had a profound interest in culinary arts and …

2024, as our readers know, was the year dedicated to Turismo delle Radici (Roots Tourism), an initiative that quickly became a landmark effort to reconnect Italian descendants worldwide with their ancestral roots. Designed to encourage the millions of people of …