If Ascoli Piceno is one of Italy’s top hidden treasures (and it is), then little Offida, population just over 5000, has to be one of Italy’s top villages ..read more

A guide to the Baroque city of Lecce in Puglia ..read more

Can you eat with skeletons underneath you, exposed during the excavation of a pristine Roman Road ..read more

When my Italian neighbors took out a wooden box containing a slender vial of Balsamic vinegar (Balsamico Tradizionale) after an Modenese dinner and exhorted me to take a giant spoon of the precious liquid, my life changed at that moment. No longer would I be able to stomach the sugared and still astringent industrial version of “balsamic vinegar.” The years it took (at least 12) to make the viscous liquid were well worth the effort. Despite the fact that every supermarket in the world seems to have its own cheap, unaged version of “aceto balsamico di Modena,” traditional Balsamic vinegar, acet ..read more

Culla de Bratto, a cradle from the hamlet of Bratto north of Pontremoli in the Lunigiana, is famous, carved with symbols, and we need to get to know it better, so we go on a quest ..read more

Lerici is an exciting town on the Gulf of Poets with access to the Cinque Terre, Portovenere and other tourist destinations. You can eat fish in a cave, and we tell you how and where ..read more

Pizza has evolved, and in 2024 we’ve had some absolutely delicious pizza you couldn’t get before, with Italy’s best ingredients sitting upon a long-fermented dough ..read more

Can you fit the flavors of a place into a scoop of gelato? Why yes, and I have proof and a story to tell ..read more

Ostiense, once an industrial part of Rome, comes alive with art and pizza ..read more

Far from the madding crowds, three places to stay in Rome ..read more