Strange museums: to understand why they exist, just think about why we like museums in the first place. Why do we visit them? Well, to see beautiful art – you’re probably thinking right now and you are certainly not wrong. We naturally associate museums, especially Italian museums, with famous art […]
Author: Francesca Bezzone
Italy’s most famous chefs
The Hit List of World Chefs Le Chef magazine is one of the most prestigious publications in the culinary field because its target audience is not us, common food lovers and part-time family chefs, but professionals. It is also a French publication, which makes it all the more respectable: we […]
Italian health care system vs. the US health care system
The Health Care System is a thorny subject in every country of the world: often tied dangerously to the political agendas of its creators, it is known to be one of those matters that could make a government capitulate. Health care in Italy and the US: is there […]
Amaretto and Galliano
Drinking Italian is a fancy affair. Elegant wines hold hands with spirits full of character – and alcohol – and the whole-Italian habit of having a light tipple before dinner turned into one of the world’s trendiest habits: of course, I am talking about aperitivo. Needless to say, all are […]
Why Italy rises in defense of Prosciutto
The past couple of years have been living hell for meat lovers all over the world, at least according to the media. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO) made public the results of research it conducted a couple of years […]
Italian food products
Italy has more than its share of world-class Italian food products: truffles, cheeses, sausages, hams and let’s not even get started with the amazing variety of fresh fruit and vegetables its climate allows for. All of these, in a way or the other, became part of Italy’s famous cuisine. Certainly, the […]
Acciaroli and the secret of living better and for longer
Acciaroli is a little hydillic hamlet in the Salerno province, about 85 miles from Naples, in the southern Italian area of Cilento. To some, “Cilento” may sound quite familiar, as it is not only a beautiful area of Campania, but had been also named, as early as the 1950s, as the one […]
Original American Songs covered in Italian
Covering a popular song is a pretty common occurance in American music: artists pay tribute to others by doing so, often freshening up the success of a tune. Some examples? Well, the first coming into my mind draw from my grunge-punk (god bless the 1990s!) background, still provide good examples: […]
Great Italian Inventions
Think of Italy: beautiful landscapes, incredible art, delectable wines and food. Life-changing inventions are not among the first things springing to mind, right? Yet, incredible minds were born in the country and they all contributed to the evolution of science, technology, the art: in other words, they contributed to make the […]
Italy’s seasonal fruit and vegetables
The balmy air of Spring has been reinvigorating us all (or I should say “you all,” as I am not a huge fan of the season) and making us yearn for all that is fresh and colorful. Off go the greys, the blacks and beiges of our Winter attires, out come […]