Category: Food Stories

Restaurants aren’t the only places you can satisfy your gustatory longing for Italian cuisine. Town markets are a prime location for great food finds. Rome, Florence, and Turin have the Central Market or Mercato Centrale where you can find lots of gastronomic surprises akin to discovering a town’s street food. 

Dining at a restaurant in Italy can be daunting when you are handed a long menu with several sections in Italian, like antipasti, primi piatti, secondi piatti, contorni, dolci. What to make of it? Here’s how to navigate the Italian restaurant menu.

Thanks to Starbucks, Americans have been drinking Caffè Latte since 1984. But our coffee drinking practices do not translate well into the – er, snobbish – Italian coffee culture.

The world-famous Italian cuisine is not about breakfast. Whether it’s breakfast in Rome, breakfast in Florence, or breakfast in Venice: the typical Italian breakfast is sweet, spare, or non-existent.