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Are you really such a big deal? No. So stop worrying that you’ll make others feel awkward

17 Essential Products Every Pizza Lover Needs In Their Life

If This Dessert Pizza Technically Isn't Pizza, Then What Is It?

How to Make Your Own Breakfast Tacos

25 Italian Restaurant Words You Need to Know

Start your meal off with some antipasti, followed by linguini vongole and end it with a delicious zabaglione. No idea what these are? Learn the language of the Italian menu.

Got Corn? You Should Be Putting It on Your Pizza

It's the unexpected topping your summer pizza has been missing.

The Ultimate Nopalito (To Go)

Contrary to popular belief, I do in fact have hobbies other than food. I grew up playing every sport I could, majored in sport management, and competed in collegiate ultimate frisbee for three...

Basic Italian Phrases to Know for your Italy Trip

Simple Italian phrases to help you communicate on your next trip to Italy.

6 Things you Didn't Know About Italian Food

6 Things you Didn’t Know About Italian FoodIt is certainly no controversial statement to say that there is a lot to Italian food. It’s got a long history, is created by a creative and eclectic people with roots from all over the continent, and it has been refined for centuries. Everybody knows something about Italian food, it’s history and it’s preparation- after all- no one could reach the age of five without seeing an Italian chef toss pizza dough into the air…

How Italian Cuisine Became as American as Apple Pie

If you’re wondering about how and why food gets appropriated—i.e. when Americans consider it their own—think about this: Eating Italian food was once considered “slumming.” So what does it take for…

Italian cuisine does not exist, and we have the maps to prove it

You can get a pizza even in Pyongyang. But is it Italian?

12 of the biggest differences between Italian and American diets

Though Americans enjoy pasta and pizza, the way we eat varies greatly from the way Italian people eat. From our coffee consumption to our meal times, here are the biggest differences between Italian and American diets.

Scientists Are Trying to Make the Perfect Pizza

Top-tier cheesy goodness could soon be available for anyone with a yeast allergy.

Italian Man Spends 40 Years Building Hand-Powered Rides Around His Restaurant

In a forest in Battaglia, Italy, lies a family restaurant called Ai Pioppi that is surrounded by a fantastic carnival of hand-powered...

Facts About Italian Food

Greenville: 10 Iconic Eats and Where to Get Them

Get a taste of Greenville’s favorite foods at these 10 establishments.