Katia Amore
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Katia has been collaborating with Italy Magazine for several years now and in late 2010 joined as the Editor - providing a host of new ideas and a fresh direction for the site.
She started working for the media when she was just a student at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, working for a local TV channel and collaborating with various magazines. She then got her Master Degree and Ph.D in Ethnic Relations from Warwick University in the UK, where she also studied for her Certificate in Journalism.
She currenlty lives in Sicily, where she runs her cookery classes and is working on a Sicilian Cookery book.
Articles by Katia Amore
September marks the end of the summer holiday season in Italy, most people are back to work, everyone has new end-of-summer resolutions, and kids are…
There are so many “Little Italys” around the world, in Canada, Australia, the USA, the UK, Sweden. Neighborhoods inhabited primarily by Italians or pe…
Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening of the 71st Venice International Film Festival this week.
On Wednesday, she posed for the paparazzi…
Reading about luxury hotels in the Venice lagoon, a Michelin star restaurant in Modena or the season fashion week in Milan ca…
It's official: FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino), the Italian car manufacturing plant created by Giovanni Agnelli with other investors in 189…
Researchers, doctors and the media keep telling us that taking up exercise after retirement can prolong life and bring great health benefits. Am…
We have been contacted several times by people who really wish to come to Italy on holiday but have decided not to for their concerns about not being…
Continuing with our summer theme we could not have picked a better word for the current holiday season, Spiaggia, the beach!
We already men…
Every 25th of July, the city of Pistoia celebrates its local saint, Saint Jacopo, by holding its traditional "Giostra dell'Orso" (The Bear…
Around one hundred masterpieces by Paolo Caliari , known as Il Veronese, coming from major national and international museums and art galle…
The 2015 edition of the Pirelli Calendar, known as The Cal, was shot by Steven Meisel and styled by Carine Roitfeld in New York ea…
Rumor has it that the American Hollywood star landed at Florence's Amerigo Vespucci airport a few days ago to shoot a new movie in Tuscany.…
This week, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini presented the MIBACT (Ministero dei Beni Culturali), his plan to change the way the Italian cultur…
I often come across articles and blog posts complaining about the bad use of English language in Italian leaflets, shops' signs, road signs, etc…and t…
I recently met Mark Spano in Sicily while he was working on his documentary “Reimagining Sicily”. I have met several film makers and journalists…
You just want to say how nice something or someone is in Italian, but you get stuck. Is it bello? Is it carino? What is the 'nicest' way to translate…
You have been offered a glass of red wine, but you prefer white wine instead! You have been suggested to catch a bus to reach your destination, but yo…
An interesting question was asked in our community asking for advice about replying to a formal invitation to a wedding.
We thought this could be…
If you are planning a trip to Italy and would like to try to engage with the locals, one of the most polite phrases you need to know is how to say “ho…
With 62% of the audience vote, Suor Cristina Scuccia, the singing nun, is the winner of The Voice of Italy 2 beating 28-year-old…
Recipes by Katia Amore
Cuore di Filetto in Crosta by Chef Salvatore di Meo
(serves four people)
Many Italians do not know that their simple pasta al burro, pasta served with butter and parmigiano cheese, has become a symbol of Italian cuisine in…
The exact origins of this cocktail are unknown, however the most widely reported account is that it was invented in Florence in 1919, at Caffè Casoni…
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