Foodie Guide

Food & Drink
by Italy Magazine Staff | Thu, 08/27/2020 - 00:00
When they were brought to Europe in the 16th century, tomatoes were considered poisonous, therefore tomato plants were grown exclusively for ornamental…
Food & Drink
by Luciana.Squadrilli | Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:24
Summer 2020 is hotter than ever in Italy. Well, to be honest the actual temperatures range from average to extremely hot in the city, tolerable at the seaside…
Food & Drink
by Danielle Bolla | Tue, 07/14/2020 - 00:51
For more than 1000 years a local cheese has been made in the verdant, rolling pastures of Northern Italy’s Altopiano di Asiago from where Asiago PDO cheese…
Food & Drink
by elizabeth.t.jones | Thu, 05/07/2020 - 04:26
Food and drink tour operator Livio Colapinto, co-founder of food travel company Zest of Italy, has devoted 20 years of his career researching, traveling to…
Lifestyle
by james.appleton | Thu, 01/09/2020 - 04:41
Since 2014, Pasta Grannies has introduced the world to 250 nonne from Italy and the diaspora. Through YouTube, they show off their skills making pasta by hand…
Food & Drink
by james.appleton | Wed, 12/18/2019 - 09:16
Is there anything better? Pasta is cheap, versatile, easy to make, filling and delicious. While gnocchi and risotto have their place, pasta is the go-to primo…
Food & Drink
by John Bensalhia | Mon, 12/16/2019 - 11:47
With the Christmas and New Year season drawing in, there are many reasons to seek out the nearest pub or bar in Italy. A well-earned break between Christmas…
Food & Drink
by John Bensalhia | Thu, 10/24/2019 - 00:47
John Bensalhia samples five of the most popular traditional Italian savoury pies... While Italy is well known for its pizza and its freshly baked bread, it's…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 10/24/2019 - 00:00
Arancini have definitively conquered the U.K. The word that describes the fried rice balls typical of Sicilian cuisine has just entered the prestigious Oxford…
Lifestyle
by Georgette Jupe | Wed, 10/09/2019 - 10:41
Is there anything quite as quintessential as a cup of coffee, part of a culture in Italy as commonplace as the Colosseum in Rome, or Venice’s Grand Canal.…