Customers visit caffès in Naples each morning and order two espressos. But, they don’t drink both. The second one is…
Your favorite culinary experience in Palermo might just be from the back of a 3-wheeled truck or a sidewalk street…
You’ve probably enjoyed a luscious Bellini or two during brunch but there’s a second Bellini-inspired dish that you have to…
I know. “Italy’s Greatest Coffee Drink” is a bold statement. But, the first time I sipped a Bicerin, I knew…
Excerpt from a larger piece I’m working on: Ortigia is a maze of winding, narrow streets. Three story limestone buildings…
Vertine, Italy Tuscany is perhaps the best known region of Italy and is quite crowded with tourists. But, there are…
Photo: Brent Petersen Torino’s Piazza Castello really goes all out for Christmas. There’s a massive cone of spectacularly colored lights…
The exact dates vary, but the Arabs are known to have introduced citrus to Sicily about 1,000 years ago. The…
Graffiti in Turin, Italy (Photo: Brent Petersen) I have not idea what the literal translation of “Straw the Police’s Noise”…
Records for sale Whenever I see a street market or flea market I always stop and browse. You’ll always find…