Food & Drink

Food & Drink
by Italy Magazine Staff |
Soft, hard and somewhere in between, the types of pecorino are innumerable and produced in nearly every region of Italy. They’re aged in caves and with…
Food & Drink
by Toni DeBella |
Earlier in March, a Michelin-starred chef from northern Italy was sentenced to nearly three months in jail for serving risotto garnished with raw vongole (…
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by Alex Sakalis |
Kombucha — that acerbic, slightly bubbly drink — has, in recent years, transcended its obscure origins and niche market to become an increasingly fashionable…
Food & Drink
by Laura Itzkowitz |
Every year starting in September, Olivieri 1882 transforms into a sort of Santa’s workshop for the domed Christmas cake that has taken the world by storm.…
Food & Drink
by Italy Magazine Staff |
Italian food exports were up by 8% in the first eight months of 2023 and are on track to surpass 2022’s record-breaking value of €60.7 billion by the end of…
Food & Drink
by Liz Shemaria |
Standing in Barbaresco Tower, Paolo Dalla Mora points to where he’s growing sage among a tapestry of grape vines.  Grapes are everywhere in Le Langhe, a…
Food & Drink
by Italy Magazine Staff |
Limoncello is — for many visitors to Italy — a quintessential holiday drink. It’s synonymous with long, languid dinners in southern Italy, a marker to signal…
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by Jessica Lionnel |
It’s Italy’s most famous dessert besides gelato, but there’s no real consensus on where it comes from. We’re talking about tiramisù, and Friulians,…
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by Alex Sakalis |
Bologna is known for many things — food, porticoes, medieval towers — but the world’s first and only Gelato University, currently celebrating its 20-year…
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by dickrosano |
“Why do we refer to alcohol as spirits?” The question came unsolicited from a man swirling his Negroni, tossed out in the dim light of Harry’s Bar in Florence…