Nutella maker targets U.S. to turn Kinder chocolate into $1B business
Ferrero wants to woo shoppers in the United States — the world’s top chocolate consumer — to build its Kinder brand. The maker of Nutella has already expanded Kinder sales in the United States to more than $500 million in the past five years, Catherine Bertrac, a senior vice president in charge of the brand in North America, said. It now wants to t...
Best Art in Bologna: 7 Top Spots for Galleries, Museums & Churches
It’s hard to believe, but there’s more than just great food in Bologna. Sure, the city is an aesthetic stunner, but if you’re a food aficionado and you let your stomach and palate guide you, it’s easy to overlook everything else. Have no fear. There are ample amounts of things to do in Bologna between meals. One of them is marveling at magnificent...
The Italian Food Awards USA are back to Summer Fancy Food 2023
Italianfood.net, the international project of the Food Publishing Group, is back in the game at Summer Fancy Food Show to present the Italian Food Awards USA 2023. The awarding ceremony, now in its fifth edition, will take place on June 26 at 4pm in New York at the Big Idea Stage area during the trade show. About 35 Italian companies in the f&b sec...
How Italy 'Corrected' Coffee With A Shot Of Booze
Foodies everywhere owe Italy a great big "thank you" for pasta (obviously). But, the boot-shaped country also deserves a hand for its collection of lesser-known, avant-garde contributions to global gastronomy like the countercultural Negroni Sbagliato or the Italian Futurism-inspired Marinetti sauce. Today, we're deep-diving into another forgotten...
St. Philip Neri Parish Celebrates 125th Anniversary
Current and former parishioners joined Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Espaillat, and the current and former pastors to celebrate the 125th anniversary of St. Philip Neri parish in the Bronx. Cardinal Dolan called St. Philip Neri “a grand parish on the Grand Concourse,” referring to the church’s location on one of the Bronx’s most i...
The Italian Designers Who Reinvented the Sofa Are Still Sitting on Top
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois,” the Swiss French architect Le Corbusier reportedly once said. A forefather of the clean-lined Modernism that defined European architecture in the decades following the First World War, he shunned decoration in favour of spare and functional forms, famously proclaiming that “a house is a machine for li...
Riccardo Muti: ‘I leave the position of music director knowing that I have done my best’
Riccardo Muti taking over artistic leadership of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra after the departure of music director Daniel Barenboim in 2006 was anything but a sure thing. After all, the famed Italian conductor hadn’t even conducted the orchestra since 1975. And despite flirting with a possible union with the New York Philharmonic, Muti had made...
Fiat 500 Is Real Italian Cars’ Accessible Classic
City-car fans, mark your calendars for November 2023. That's when Fiat North America is unveiling the American version of the 2024 500e. But as exciting as that is for buyers of stylish EVs—as well as Fiat's current U.S. lineup—it's not the only Cinquecento resurrection. A new company in Italy is building classic 500 restomods, and unlike Singer's...
‘Ciao House’ With Alex Guarnaschelli Renewed for Season 2 at Food Network
Molto bene! Food Network has renewed its new Italian cooking competition “Ciao House,” hosted by Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabriele Bertaccini, for a second season. “Shot on-location in Italy, the series takes ten rising culinary stars on the journey of a lifetime to live in a breathtaking Italian villa and compete against each other as individuals an...
This Is Ischia’s Moment in the Sun
I fell for Ischia well before I ever visited it in person. In the 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” the scene where Tom, the main character, “happens” upon Marge and Dickie, the couple he is pursuing, was filmed beneath the island’s Aragonese castle on its golden beach (the Spiaggia dei Pescatori, the beach of the fishermen). The couple’s beauti...
History Club’s topic for June 20 is Ridgefield’s Italian community
Ridgefield’s Italian community will be the topic for The Ridgefield Historical Society's Ridgefield History Club on Tuesday, June 20, at 10 am in the 1714 David Scott House at 4 Sunset Lane. Jack Sanders, who has written 10 books on Ridgefield history, will be on hand. Parking at the Scott House is limited and carpooling is recommended. Registratio...
Florence and The Madonna dell’ufo at Palazzo Vecchio
Florence is worth any trip and being able to admire Palazzo Vecchio is one more reason: the ancient seat of Florentine power, symbol of the city for seven centuries, holds treasures of inestimable value and beauty, such as the Judith of Donatello, Bronzino’s paintings in the Chapel of Eleonora and Michelangelo’s Genius of Victory. In addition to th...