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Italy’s craft beer week is just 8 days away! From February 13-19, the Settimana della Birra Artigianale will celebrate domestic and foreign brews with special events and promotions all over Italy. The website (in Italian) lists all the events, including brewery visits, tastings, and brewing workshops. There will also be beer premiers and a photography competition. For up to the minute news on the Settimana della Birra, check out the initiative’s website or Cronache di Birra.

Rome’s mayor Gianni Alemanno (source)

Yesterday Rome’s mayor Gianni Alemanno held a press conference to officially launch the food charity “Il pane a chi serve”, a sort of breadbased City Harvest that will see products that otherwise would have been tossed in the trash distributed to local charities. At the moment, the initiative is at work in the 4th and 11th municipality, but there are plans to expand across the city. “Il pane a chi serve” will be (more…)

Today’s post comes from Carson, my cousin’s eight-year-old son. He loves food, especially pizza, and was struck by this photo of Forno Colapicchioni‘s pizza rossa picante when going through my iPhoto. I hope someday I have the chance to take him to this Roman bakery, but for now, we can just talk about it here in Jacksonville, Florida. (more…)

I often ask myself if I have what it takes to move back to the States. With all the chaos in Italy these days for the past 3 millenia, it’s tempting to run away. But could I really live without the world’s best pizza at my doorstep? Well, if I moved to Brooklyn, I would certainly get by eating my weight in Paulie Gee’s Neapolitan-style pies. (more…)

It always saddens me to board a US-bound flight before the holidays and see Italians stuffing boxes of industrial panettone into the overhead compartment. Aside from the fact that in the US there are excellent artisanal producers of the stuff (Sullivan Street Bakery and Runner & Stone, to name a pair), the mass produced junk (more…)