2016 seems to be a disastrous year for Italian olive oil production. Climate issues and parasites hit the harvest and create the best conditions for olive fruit fly. Prices are about to increase in Apulia, Sicily and Calabria.

Wine e-commerce is developing more and more every year. Tannico is one of the top Italian online wine platforms, created at the end of 2012 by Marco Magnocavallo. We asked him how this sector is growing in Italy.

France, Japan and Canada are the countries where we can eat best, not only in terms of taste and quality of the products, but also in terms of consumption and sustainability. A new index measures that practices used to make...

  Superfood sprayed with pesticides? Goji berries hailing from countries with lax policies, for example. There’s an alternative, fortunately: Italian-grown goji. 

The budding Italian coffee scene is expanding, despite there being a long way to go still. Canadian Brent Jopson takes a wild gamble and opens a specialty coffee joint with modern extraction methods in Milan. 

With Sal De Riso’s biography we conclude our series on the Tre Torte, the highest recognition of Pasticceri e Pasticcerie d'Italia 2017 guide. For the holidays, Maestro de Riso shares a tasty holiday recipe.

Thirty years of excessive expolitation have reduced swordfish population of 70%. Now, the fish is at risk and WWF launches the alarm. But the distribution shares proposed by the European Union trigger a fight between fishermen and ecologists.

Starting from January 2018, insects and other food made with protein-based flours (from crickets and locusts) will be available in the Italian restaurants, too. Only if Efsa will ensure costumers on the quality and security of the products, including them...

Ideas for local, niche quality, à la carte gifts for savvy gourmet consumers. Here’s what can be gift-wrapped for this year’s holiday season. 

Lightness: an idea, more than a concept tied to real weight, is a favorite theme not only in philosophy and literature, but in the kitchen as well.