Traditional italian ingredients have become traditional American ingredients, too. Think about this: Have you ever met anyone who really doesn’t like Italian food? We bet you haven’t. But why is it that Italian food has such a universal appeal? We think we know why. There’s No One ‘Italian Cuisine’ Every region, every town, every household […]
In many ways, the history of Italy is the history of the modern world. So many pivotal moments in our collective past have taken place in Italy that it can be considered Europe’s historical keystone. In this section, learn about the great and not so great moments in Italian history, from the grandeur of Rome […]
Although voracious aficionados can suck down several sauce-laden slices in mere minutes, pizza did not develop in a vacuum—an Italian political vacuum, that is. Founded around 600 B.C. as a Greek settlement, Naples in the 1700s and early 1800s was a thriving waterfront city. Technically an independent kingdom, it was notorious for its throngs of […]