Italian Farmer’s Market Delivers
Just got the first shipment from Cascina Cornale, a farmer’s coop based in Piedmont that delivers weekly to northern Italian regions, including Val d’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy and parts of Liguria,...
View ArticleDesignated Driver Gets a Bottle of Fine Italian Wine (To Take Home)
Top-notch Italian wine maker Allegrini will offer a bottle of wine (to be drunk at a later date) to the driver offering to get friends who have imbibed home. The designated driver promotion doesn’t...
View ArticlePasta la Vista, Baby: The Changing Italian Diet
25 years ago, Italian families ate more meat, drank more wine but put less fish and pasta on the table. La famiglia also usually shopped in small local stores — there were five times fewer supermarkets...
View ArticleMarijuana Liqueur Plan Goes up in Smoke for Italian
Police in Italy arrested a 60-year-old Naples man for a concoction he made out of marijuana. They called his invention “marjiuancello,” in honor of the lemon liqueur limoncello commonly found there....
View ArticleExtra Virgin Olive Oil? Italians Use Laser to Combat Counterfeits
To combat food fraud, Italians have developed new laser techniques to determine whether that extra virgin olive oil is really as pure as the label says. Researchers at Florence’s Institute of Applied...
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