Ukrainian soldiers trying to save the father of a family of four — the only one at that moment who still had a pulse — moments after bein...

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…as well as regenerational S o, I’ve been looking at this parade from the sky box, of late, and it has eventually dawned on me why there i...

T here was this wonderful period, in the mid-to-late 1980’s, when Italy was having a food and wine renaissance. Magazines in America touted ...

"An organism that is too greedy and takes too much without giving anything in return destroys what it needs for life and dies out."...

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I was in my local Italian store yesterday, picking up a few things for the weekend. On the way, there was a light dusting of snow. The bris...

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W ell, here we are, another new year. Another new variant in the coronavirus. And with the new year, the wine trade in Italy and America is ...

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“Per me si va nella città dolente, per me si va nell'etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.” - Il canto terzo dell'Infer...

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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." – Confucius M y boss, Brad, convinced the powers that be to let m...