Slow Food

Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/29/2022 - 03:01
Italy’s agricultural bounty includes a wide variety of prized nuts and dried fruits. Depending on the area where they’re grown, they acquire specific features…
Lifestyle
by Francine Segan | Wed, 10/06/2021 - 02:05
Cervia, a small seaside town in southern Emilia-Romagna, is famous for its salt, which is nicknamed the “Pope’s salt” because of the centuries-long tradition…
Food & Drink
by Phoebe Hunt | Tue, 08/17/2021 - 03:18
Though nominally part of Italy, Sardinia is wildly different when it comes to the language, the culture, and even the terrain. It’s no surprise then—when you…
Food & Drink
by Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 11/30/2020 - 03:08
Traditions… Many talk about them and many remind us that they must be protected in any way and at any cost. But why? Before embarking on this journey with…
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…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 05/01/2019 - 03:00
Capers have been widely used in Mediterranean cuisine (as well as in medicine) since ancient times: references to its use are found in the Bible, and in the…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 04/26/2017 - 06:00
The delicious Certaldo Onion is so tied to its area of production (and it has been for a long time) that, in the 12th century, the local lords, counts Alberti…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 02/08/2017 - 00:00
It would be an ‘irreparable damage’, says Slow Food, to lose an extraordinary cheese like Asiago Stravecchio. Produced in the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, a…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 10/07/2016 - 00:00
[Photo: the town of Barolo in the Langhe, an area renowned for winemaking.] The  name of Italy’s second largest region – Piemonte – derives from  medieval…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 09/22/2016 - 08:00
Once used as an ornamental plant gracing the gardens of houses in the Savona’s countryside, the chinotto plant can still be found in Liguria, although its…