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The Palio di Siena is ninety seconds of horse racing built on a year of complex political manoeuvring between the city seventeen rival contrade --…
Barolo, from Nebbiolo grapes in the Langhe hills of Piedmont, is structured, long-lived, and capable of ageing for decades -- a guide to Italy greatest…
Cacio e pepe is three ingredients and a demanding technique -- an entry point to the Roman pasta canon that is as difficult to do…
Beneath Orvieto Gothic cathedral lies a subterranean city of Etruscan cisterns, medieval olive presses, and tunnels carved into volcanic tufa over two thousand years.
The Langhe is wine country — Barolo, Barbaresco, white truffles — but also literary history, Baroque towns, and a food tradition of uncommon seriousness. Here…
Between six and eight in the evening, Italy pauses. The working day is over, dinner is still hours away, and the ritual of the aperitivo…