If you’re like me, you are always looking for a new spot to eat or drink in Venice. Happy to have the reliable old favorites, I crave a new Venetian culinary experience and knew just who to turn to for the scoop – local guide, podcaster and culinary expert Monica Ceserato who wrote the latest issue’s cover story. Here is an excerpt of …
Trieste: A Different Side of Italy
This article originally appeared in the April/May 2022 issue of Dream of Italy. Join Dream of Italy today for access to thousands of articles like this one! ** Curious about Trieste? Join Kathy McCabe October 5, 2024 for a very special Regent Seven Seas Cruise departing from Trieste with multi-night port calls in this city, Croatia, Montenegro and Athens! Book …
February/March 2024: Where to Eat/Drink in Venice, Made in Italy Rome Shopping, Hollywood’s Favorite Pasta
Venice Renaissance: Exploring the Culinary and Cocktail Scene Post-Pandemic Local Monica Cesarato shares her picks for where to go in Venice for the best food and drinks her city has to offer. Discover where to taste tapas-like cicchetti and have cocktails made with salt harvested from the lagoon. It doesn’t get more local than that. Venice is having a culinary …
From Modena to Abbey Road Studios: A Dream Made Into A Song
The last thing I expected a few mornings ago (waking up in Malta for our last day of filming an episode for Dream of Europe) was that the story of a dream of a song- a little idea that was born in Modena that made it all the way to Abbey Road Studios- would be on the front page of Il Resto del Carlino newspaper. I should know …
Editor’s Note: February/March 2024 Dream of Italy Issue
This Editor’s Note originally appeared in the February/March 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Members receive access to more than 190 back issues—if you’re not a member, join here. From tasting tapas like Venetian cicchetti to sipping a cocktail made with salt harvested straight from the lagoon, local Monica Cesarato shares the best food and drinks her city has to …
Dream of Italy Season 3 Sweepstakes
Enter to Win an Italian Culinary Adventure for Two to Modena & Other Amazing Prizes Watch Season 3 of Dream of Italy currently airing on local PBS stations and the PBS app. Join host Kathy McCabe and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in Tuscany, 3-Michelin star chef Massimo Bottura in Modena and Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei in Campania! Dream of Italy Season 3 …
Leonardo da Vinci Is The Subject of New Ken Burns PBS Documentary
Italy’s original Renaissance Man will be in the spotlight as the subject of a new documentary, titled Leonardo da Vinci, airing on PBS on November 18 and 19, 2024. The two-part, four-hour special is a biography of da Vinci’s life and career, set amid the wider context of Renaissance Italy. The documentary is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, along …
Hungry to Visit Modena? Go With Italian Culinary Adventures
Have you watched Season 3 of Dream of Italy yet? If you have, You already known the magic of Modena. If not, you are in for a treat meeting 3-Michelin Star Chef Massimo Bottura and his wife Lara Gilmore and exploring their Modena in not just one but two episodes. I have fallen in love with this city! And I can’t wait to go …
Dream Day in Italy: Dance to Italian Pop in Sanremo
This is an excerpt from the new book Dream Days in Italy: 30 Adventures in the Italian Boot – get your copy for more dream days! Sanremo in Northern Italy’s Liguria is a city on the Mediterranean coast, closer to France and Monaco than to much of the rest of the Italian peninsula. It feels more like Monaco than Italy …
Season 3 of Dream of Italy Premieres on Create TV in March
While Season 3 of Dream of Italy is already airing on local PBS stations, on the PBS app and PBS.org, the star-studded season will have its premiere on Create TV, public television’s lifestyle channel on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET. The first episode to air will be Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany, followed each …