Global pasta consumption doubles
Ten years ago the Mediterranean Diet was recognized as an intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO and even today it is still a growing trend in the world, as the increasing consumption of pasta shows. According to Us News & World Report, the Mediterranean Diet is confirmed as the best in the world. The popularity of this iconic Italian dish has a...
Cathedral of Orvieto is unforgettable
One thousand feet above the valley floor, Orvieto overlooks the Italian countryside. Upon first glance, it would appear that the Cathedral of Orvieto is its only structure. Rising from the volcanic stone of the upper town, the 14th-century church simply creates that commanding of a presence. The ancient city, a maze of narrow cobblestone streets li...
1st European hotbed in Germany
The coronavirus entered Europe more than once and the first hotbed may have been isolated at Munich in Germany in January, according to a genetic map published Thursday on the Netxstrain site. The site was founded and directed by a group led by Trevor Bedford, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The map, a sort of family tree...
Italian village residents find Lambrusco wine coming out of their taps
People living in a small village near Modena, in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, got a surprise on Wednesday when they turned on their kitchen taps and got wine instead of water. Not a miracle, but a fault at a nearby winery meant wine had accidentally been pumped into the local water supply, technicians later discovered. Residents said the...
Coronavirus: Have faith in Italy says president
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has called for "responsibility" in the face of the Coronavirus emergency, urging Italians to "follow carefully" the official guidelines regarding changes to lifestyle and daily habits. "Italy is going through a particularly challenging time and is facing it dutifully with full transparency and completeness of inf...
La #DopEconomy supera 16,2 miliardi di euro, +6,0% in un anno
La #DopEconomy italiana si conferma driver fondamentale e indiscusso dei distretti agroalimentari del nostro Paese. Lo certifica il XVII Rapporto Ismea-Qualivita che nella sua analisi sui dati produttivi 2018 registra una ulteriore crescita che si inserisce nel trend degli ultimi dieci anni per il settore Food e Wine DOP IGP, con un valore alla pro...
Virus, what virus? Italy's "nonni" step in as schools close
Italian grandparents — “nonni” as they are called — were pulled in two contradictory directions on Thursday — and as usual the grandchildren won out. In a decree that took effect Thursday, the Italian government urged the elderly and infirm to stay at home and restricted visits to nursing homes and assisted living facilities to contain the spread o...
La super batteria (al grafene) con tecnologia italiana. Alleanza Varta-Iit-BeDimensional
Una tecnologia al grafene, con determinante contributo italiano, va alla prova del mercato. E lo fa nello strategico settore delle batterie, grazie al lavoro congiunto dei ricercatori del colosso tedesco Varta, dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia e della BeDimensional, lo spin-off per il grafene dell’Iit, che ha nel professor Vittorio Pellegrini i...
'I'm not worried, even though I really am': Life in an Italian village during the coronavirus outbreak
The people in our village of 1400 in east-central Italy are very friendly and gregarious. We cannot step outside very far without someone greeting us, whether we know them or not. It is considered both courteous and a custom of community connection. Yesterday, outside a food market, a very affable man who I often run into seemed ready to issue the...
Vinitaly aiming for 300 Italian Wine Ambassadors
The VIA team is working to stage the advanced-level Italian Wine Ambassador certification in Verona from 10-14 April 2020, shortly before Vinitaly. With five advanced Italian Wine Ambassador courses in Italy and 10 overseas held from 2015 to 2019, this year the VIA will run five Wine Ambassador courses, including one in Atlanta in June, Seattle in...
From Google To Piedmont Chocolate: Assedium Ritual Pastry
Paolo Pregno and Cristina Beltramo today are a couple of young entrepreneurs from and living in Piedmont. They met and started being a couple in Milan, but moved together to Dublin, Ireland, to work together at Google. After some years, they made a life choice that may have shocked their colleagues, as they came back to Italy to start their own bus...
CEO Talk: Silvia Campello Of Luxury Italian Lingerie Brand, Cosabella
Silvia Campello didn’t set out to take over her family business. The Chief Executive Officer of the luxury, Italian intimate apparel brand, Cosabella, was an avid student who studied both business and pre-med as an undergrad (which she finished in three years), and then went on to study ballet at the Sorbonne during a gap year. “I was conflicted, s...