Trieste’s Best Bakery: Pasticceria Penso

This is an excerpt from the longer article Eat Your Way Through The Friuli–Venezia Giulia Region of Italy by Elisabeth Antoine Crawford, author of Flavors of Friuli: A Culinary Journey through Northeastern Italy: My fondest memory of Trieste will always be the day I first stepped into Pasticceria Penso. My timing seems predestined — I arrived on a blustery February …

Have You Tasted a Chino While in Italy?

I always feel bad when I order a Diet Coke (or “Coca Light”) when I’m in Italy. First, it clearly gives me away as an American. (Some Italians call Coke or Diet Coke – “American champagne.”) Second, it usually costs more than a glass of wonderful house wine. But sometimes on a hot day, you just crave a Coke, you …

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All Things Italian is a small market with authentic Italian products – specializing in pantry items, confections, coffee, linens, pottery & housewares. A great place to get gifts for anyone that enjoys great food, including yourself! Dream of Italy readers who order by Dec 12th, will get 10% OFF. During checkout enter – Dream09 – as the coupon code. Order …

Eat Your Heart Out at Turin’s Eataly

This is an excerpt from What’s New In and Around Turin from the March 2009 issue of Dream of Italy: For foodies in the know, Turin has long been a must-visit. Now the city can add another culinary notch to its belt, with Eataly, the world’s largest food and wine store. Located in the former Carpano Vermouth production plant, Eataly …

Eating Your Way Through Italy

Want to eat your way through Italy? Then you have to go right to the producers – those Italians who excel at making very specific culinary delicacies. And who better to guide you to these producers than someone who imports Italian foods into the U.S. DItalia.com, our favorite online Italian food store, is offering two incredible tours this May introducing …

Christmas Time Means Panettone!

Our guest blogger Robin Locker recounts her discovery of panettone and the history of this Italian holiday food- When I first saw panettone, I thought it was the ubiquitous fruitcake that you see around the holidays. You know- the dense brick of a log that everyone hates, but gets as a gift…and re-gifts it on down the line until they …

Chocolate Sunday in Perugia: Part Two

If you thought attending the Eurochocolate Festival in Perugia was enough choco-fun for us, you’re wrong. There was more. After lunch on a lovely restaurant terrace in Spello Sunday afternoon, we headed for a lesson at the chocolate school at Perguina’s factory. (I first attended the Perugina school right after it opened a few years back.) My friend Bill drove …

A Chocolate Day in Perugia, Umbria

Sunday was a perfect day in Umbria: sunny and clear with just the right temperature (not to warm, not too cool) and lots and lots of chocolate. It was the final day of Eurochocolate, the extravaganza held each year in Umbria’s charming capital city of Perugia. Everyone else seemed to think it was a great day for chocolate as well …