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Calvin Trillin does not like turkey. He has called it “basically something college dormitories use to punish students for hanging around on Sunday.” In 1981, he suggested in The New Yorker that Americans gather around the Thanksgiving table for an unlikely substitute: pasta carbonara. He imagined that it was served at the first Thanksgiving, confounding both the Indians and the Pilgrims, who declared it “heretically tasty” and “the work of the devil.”
VICENZA, ITALY — The first and most imposing exhibit of the new Palladio Museum at Palazzo Barbarano is the Palazzo itself, built by the architect in the 1570s for the Vicentine nobleman Montano Barbarano.
Italian politician Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, on Tuesday said she would not run in primaries being organized by the center-right People of Freedom (Pdl) party.
The family of the little Fiat 500 is growing. After this year’s introduction of the larger, five-door 500L model, the Italian brand is set to give its baby car electric power. The 500e, as it’s called, “brings Italian flavour to the electric vehicle market” says Fiat.
The Italian blue cheese Gorgonzola has seen exports rise by 12%, said managers of the Gorgonzola cheesemaker 5 Stelle on Tuesday during one of a series of educational events organized November 17-26 by Italian food association Federalimentare and Italy's education ministry.
Bigger. Faster. Cheaper. The pressure to produce in an increasingly competitive marketplace has led many global fashion houses to face due north and take a sharp turn toward China.
ROME — Italian luxury brands are typically associated with style, quality and understated elegance. But increasingly, some fashion leaders also want to be known for legacies of a different kind.
My grandfather Agostino Coppola came to America from the southern Italian village of Bernalda, in the region now known as Basilicata. An irascible character known for his stories, he had seven sons, who all tended to imitate him and to whom he passed his stories. Of those seven sons, only two are left (my father, Carmine, died in 1991): my 98-year-old uncle Mikey, who is my godfather, and my uncle Anton, a noted composer and conductor still working at the age of 95. In the past 12 years he’s written an opera, “Sacco and Vanzetti”; rewritten the libretto of Puccini’s only failure, “Edgar;” and done extensive revisions for “The Merry Widow.” Anton became known to us as Uncle Kiki, so named because my brother, as a child, had a friend named Dickie and called everyone “Kiki.” The name stuck.
How to choose between two great loves? Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci since 2006, was brought up in Rome and is passionate about the Eternal City. Yet her heart also belongs to Florence, home of the leather goods company, which has recently opened a museum in its ancestral home there. The designer now moves between the two great Italian cities but lives in Rome.
Italian researchers on Wednesday announced they had found a key mechanism in the functioning of the HIV virus, a turn which experts say could lead to the development of an effective vaccine against the disease.