During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor called the sudden interest in the theater of food and the culinary arts in America a sort of "Italian Renaissance in food … an intellectual elevation ...

Aperitivo culture on the whole, if you will, has had quite a moment recently — both at restaurants and in bookstore aisles. One of the first cookbooks I can recall tapping into the bounty of Italian ...

Italy produces more wine than any country in the world, but many of its grapes and wine styles are not well known here. On a recent trip to VinItaly, the largest wine trade show in the world held ...