Play with your food! Il Ruzzolone is a game played in only one Italian hill town - Panicale. The goal? Roll a nine pound round of pecorino cheese around the perimeter of the town.
At the Espresso Academy in Florence, you can take espresso & cappuccino making lessons in a coffee roasting plant. There's even a "milk art" course that will teach you to make those pretty cappuccino designs.
January 17 is the International Day of Italian Cuisines. The Virtual Group of Italian Chefs will be celebrating and promoting authentic Italian cuisine by cooking Pasta alla Carbonara. Join them!
In Italy, on the feast of Epiphany (Jan. 6), a mythical woman named Befana brings candy coal to those who've been naughty. Time to start making coal for all those family and friends who need to clean up their acts!
Italians are famous for their fish dinners on Christmas Eve and one of the stars of the meal is the capitone or eel - best to buy it alive and kill it in your own kitchen sink!
Support local Italian viticulture by adopting a vine! Choose your region and your grape and at the end of the year you'll get 60 bottles of your own wine (you can even personalize the labels).
Italy's sheep make the tastiest cheese! Think pecorino! Think ricotta! Now you can adopt a lamb in the Abruzzo and fill your pantry with organic cheeses & sausages!
Almost every Italian menu features an antipasto of affettati misti. In their new ad campaign, the salumeria Negroni suggests that Italy itself is a landscape made of prosciutto, mortadella, and pancetta! Yumm!
Nudo, a farm in Italy, lets you adopt an olive tree for a year and they send you the fruits of the harvest. It's a great way to get some fabulous olive oil and to support small scale farming.
Master cheese makers in Italy just crafted the world's longest mozzarella. How long do you think a mozzarella braid could be? (Hint: this one's not even close!)
Three-pronged chopsticks make it it easy to eat Asian food gracefully - even if you're a bit lacking in eye-hand coordination. Introduced at the Milan International Home Show which ends today.
Pandora Design rethinks the Italian souvenir and helps you take a taste of Italy home: Squeeze your citrus on the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica and fill the piazza with juice!
A famous saying: "When the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall. And when Rome falls,the world will end." Chris Kabul's Colosseum cake pan lets you play master of the universe.
No time to join the jet setters on Sardinia this August? Treat yourself to a taste of the island anyway with this icy aperitif made with mirto, Sardinia's myrtle berry liquor.
Roman chef Filippo La Mantia (who began his cooking career in Palermo's jail when arrested wrongfully for a Mafia crime) is getting lots of publicity for his campaign to rid Italian food of garlic.
A close shave! Most people think the best way to cool off in Italy is by eating gelato. But on really hot days those in the know head from the grattachecca stands.
Chilly con Campari. In love with this innovative aperitif : Campari granita with grapefruit juice and lime. Eat it with a spoon or add a taste of it to a glass of prosecco.
Too many pots spoil the pasta? Ask Alain Ducasse and Alessi. They've teamed up to create the all-in-one pasta pot. Now there's no need to dirty extra pots and pans by cooking the sauce and the pasta separately.
A hot new way to cool down in Italy. Is it a granita di cafe with a bit of cream mixed in? Or is it a coffee flavored ice cream full of refreshing microscopic ice chips? Whatever it is, it's fabulous!
Could anything be more Roman than a Fava Bean, Asparagus & Arugula Salad with Shaved Pecorino? Maybe a side of Fresh Pea Hummus scooped up on spicy radishes?
