author interviews

The founder of Jul’s Kitchen lets us in on her secrets to Tuscan cooking, La Cucina Povera and the joy of good, simple ingredients when you know how to use…

Crime thriller The Hunting Season is set in the foodie town of Bologna, and food indeed plays a central role in the plot, especially as it refers to the world…

“Italy began for me south of Naples,” reads the opening sentence of Robert Camuto’s newest book, “South of Somewhere - Wine, Food and the Soul of Italy.” It…

Given the year we’ve gone through, a book like "The Italian Art of Living: Your Passport to Hope, Happiness and Your Personal Renaissance" is just what we need…

The best way to learn what life is really like in a certain place is to listen to the people who live in the place, sharing their experiences and feelings;…

While the figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi is widely known and often admired for his fierce personality and his role in the unification of Italy, another figure,…

For our list on great books about Italy, we’re going to keep it lighthearted - no heavy tomes, no dense, exacting reads; life in quarantine is already hard…

[Photo: the Bronski family in a Neapolitan pizzeria.] Having been diagnosed with celiac disease in 2007, Peter Bronski didn’t want to lose the beloved food…

For our author interviews series, we’re delighted to present Taras Grescoe, a Canadian journal-ist based in Montreal and the author of seven non-fiction books…

Raised in Liverpool by an Italian father and a British mother, novelist Nicky Pellegrino has been immersed into Italian culture and lifestyle since she was a…