L ately, when thinking about Italian wine and its place in the world, I’ve been pulling back the focus, way back, and envisioning it from a ...

W hile scores of Italians and other Europeans flock to the beaches of Italy, Spain and Greece, suntanning their bums off, America is in the ...

A s an Italian food chronicler, by virtue of working through the past few decades and witnessing many iterations of Italian-divined restaura...

T he large alcohol companies are sounding their alarms. People aren’t drinking as much as they used to. Their business is down. Their projec...

I t seems like everywhere you turn these days, someone is prosecuting their case for something that they deem purpose driven. We’re shouted ...

R ecently I had a long conversation with a young wine professional. Currently they’re sommeliering in a very exclusive hotel which has a res...

N ot long ago, an erstwhile colleague recounted a story they had while making an Italian wine presentation. The account was a tony Italian-s...

A lthough we’ve been told we’re in a post-Covid world now, we still might be suffering from the hangover that almost three years of isolatio...

W hile in my local Italian store the other day, a sales rep was doing a tasting of Italian wines. He had a bevy of whites and one red. It wa...

  T here’s this old joke going around. I heard Colin Quinn tell it recently. It goes like this: This guy goes into a pet shop looking to ...

O ur time at the dinner table was over. Giorgio motioned to me and his wife that he was moving to the drawing room. His wife said she would ...

Una favola continuava I t was 7:00 PM and Giorgio’s residence was about 15 minutes away from the pensione I was staying in. But I wasn’...

una favola... M y first trip to Italy was in 1971. I was a student on summer break and spent days in Rome, wandering the streets at all hour...

From the archives: Seeing as summertime is approaching and holiday visits to Italy will increase, along with requests to visit wineries, jus...

Seafood with Cheese - Authentic or the Ultimate Culinary Transgression?   O ver the past few days, I’ve been chatting with a foodie friend w...