Food & Wine

The global turnover of fake 'Italian' food products has risen to an annual 120 billion euros, Coldiretti farmers group said Monday. "Due to the continued rise of Italian sounding brands, over two-thirds of 'Italian' food products in the world are...

The Italian National Chefs' Team (NIC) on Friday won the senior category of the Global Chef Challenge in Dubai, beating Sweden and Singapore. Italy also garnered two second places: in the junior category, with young chef Giorgia Ceccato, and the...

Its inauguration postponed several times because of Covid, Garum: The Library and Museum of Cooking finally opened on May 26. The website www.atlasoscura.com lists 81 museums worldwide devoted to the history of food, but none includes a research library. Stove...

The city of Dijon in east-central France on Friday inaugurated the first Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin, or international center for gastronomy and wine. The aim is to "tell about and bring to life" the gastronomical traditions...

Decorating eggshells, especially those of ostriches, predates the Christian tradition by at least 3,000 years. The ancient Sumerians and Egyptians commonly placed decorated eggs, or their representations in gold and silver, in graves. Thus, the Christian adaptation of decorating eggs...

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) President Robert Allegrini spoke Monday morning to an assembly of Italian senators at the government palace, Palazzo Giustiniani, in Rome, Italy. Allegrini was invited by Brussels-based think tank and NIAF partner ItalyUntold to address...

“Baci” Perugina chocolates, a Made-In-Italy icon, are celebrating their 100th birthday this year. “Baci” means “kisses” and their birth and history are appropriately the product of a secret love story between their creator Luisa Spagnoli and businessman/politician Giovanni Buitoni, 14...

In the last paragraph of my article, Merry Christmas from the Vatican: a Cookbook to Bring Joy in a Sad Year, published here on December 9, 2020, its author Thomas Kelly wrote: “David and I are working on another Vatican...

The other day, while looking up different ideas for how to prepare some different Christmas meals, I started to see many recipes for The Feast of the Seven Fishes.  This got me to thinking: why is this such a prevalent...

Since the pandemic has ended, new young members have been entering with Italian and Italian-American backgrounds…this is “a pretty natural pairing.. as Italian culture is known for being imbued with this certain artistic approach whether you are cooking, speaking, or...

Take food preparation, add nutraceutics, season with lots of scientific method and you get ristoceutics, a new word.  Coined by me in 2016 at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) to indicate a new line of research, it became...