Dear Mr. Editor: I bet you don’t get much mail from dogs. But The Lady, that’s Madeleine Johnson, wasn’t getting anywhere on her column, which she says is my fault…
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In love with Italy and its happy-go-lucky natives, good food, beautiful monuments and art? See “Videocracy.” And weep.
Produced by 32-year-old Erik Gandini, an Italian filmmaker who lives in Sweden,…
How to mix farming with tourism
Villa San Raffaello in Italy’s Le Marche region includes eight acres of land that produce up to 700 litres of wine per year, on…
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Whenever I tell people I live in Milan, they immediately gush about how well they ate while visiting Italy. They had the most amazing pasta! They had the meal of…
Read more →Dear Classmate: Recently you asked me to be your friend on Facebook and of course I accepted. We were friends and classmates in college. Our shared intellectual vivacity and similar…
Read more →For 18 years, when Carnival approached, I’d load the car with children (husband/father would come later), skis, bed linens, sleds and a decent teapot that the vacation rental in Cortina…
Read more →Naples has always held some sort of morbid attraction for me. I have wanted to go there since I arrived in Italy two decades ago. Last week, I finally did.…
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The Costa Smeralda has become synonymous with prime Mediterranean property but securing deals requires discretion
If Harvard-educated Ishmaelite Prince Karim Aga Khan IV had not been bewitched by its turquoise…
Read more →First came Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” and now there’s “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.”
I haven’t read either one…
While the new face of Italy — Prime Minister Mario Monti — has been calling on U.S. President Barack Obama on his victory lap tour, the old face of Italy…
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