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Food & Drink
by Francine Segan | Thu, 06/21/2018 - 03:35
Angela Velenosi  of Velenosi Wines started her company  in 1984 to bring the unique wines of the Marche region of Piceno worldwide. Here she chats about what…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/23/2018 - 06:46
[Domenica Marchetti, food writer and author of seven books on Italian cooking. Photo credit Olga Berman.] For our Interview series, we introduce you today to…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/09/2018 - 00:00
“I feel like a pendulum between two magnets,” says Italian journalist Federico Rampini, referring to an inner conflict common to many expatriates, the allure…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/12/2018 - 07:17
“Goethe said, 'See Naples and die.' I saw Naples and started to live.” So writes American-born Katherine Wilson in the introduction to her memoir, ‘Only in…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 12/15/2017 - 04:35
It’s a man’s world, and even more so when it comes to the pizza-making industry; but that hasn’t stopped young and talented Giorgia Caporuscio from stepping in…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 06/23/2017 - 00:00
In her early forties, in the wake of a divorce and a traumatic illness, California-born Chandi Wyant decided to walk - alone – on a stretch of the Via…
Culture
by Georgette Jupe | Thu, 08/11/2016 - 06:30
"Ordinary people look at things with the old eye, the creative man observes the old things with new eyes." Gian Piero Bona, Italian poet and writer Italy is…
Food & Drink
by Anonymous (not verified) | Thu, 07/21/2016 - 02:15
By Marisa Finetti A small ranching town in the western elbow of Nevada doesn’t seem like a place for culinary and wine discovery. But, it was to Kirk Peterson…
Lifestyle
by Georgette Jupe | Mon, 07/04/2016 - 04:42
Photo: Lalla and Laurent with Julia Hernandez as photographer. “Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do” represents the life philosophy of Laura…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/11/2016 - 03:30
“How does one demonstrate love for a city? For us, it is by celebrating the nature of her being. Bella Figura Publications was created to celebrate Venice as a…