Made in Italy

Our philosophy from the beginning has been based on a challenge: to defeat any limits ... Those of religion, of colour, ethnicity and, why not, even those of…

Capodimonte is a distinctive style of porcelain that stands apart from all the other ceramic traditions of southern Italy. This delicate, ornate porcelain--…

From the shop windows of Naples, hundreds of faces lure us with their expressions: proud, sad, joyful, lewd, angelic, humorous. Few artistic traditions have…

Purchases of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese in the U.S. have more than tripled in the last week (+220%), with importers rushing to stock up before the proposed…

The brightly painted face of a medieval-knight-turned-marionette. A three-legged Medusa grimacing from the center of a ceramic plate. The wooden wheel of a…

In Italy, coffee is a religion with millions of worshipers. Yet, most of these devotees know nothing about the object of their devotion, despite being…

Main photo credit: Squillace view to the sea (c) Jelly CC via Wikimedia Commons.jpg Around the toe of Italy’s boot lies a coastline marked with clear waters,…

Walk through the ancient cobblestoned streets of the city of Florence and you can see that it is quite easy to get lost in its intoxicatingly beautiful…

Sicily can reasonably claim to be the most enigmatic of all Italian regions. Anomalous and magical, with a multicultural identity that has fused together…

The famous tart-sweet liqueur known as limoncello requires only four ingredients: lemon peels, grain alcohol, sugar, and water. However, like many of Italy’s…