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Cheese So Good, You Can Take It to the Bank

An Italian financial institution accepts valuable Parmigiano-Reggiano as collateral from struggling farmers.

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Italy’s Government is Not Cool with Anti-Mosque Laws

Italy’s consitutional court is reviewing a law many consider Islamophobic.

Recipes as Resistance

The man who invented the “eggplant-parmesan rave” is out to save traditional Italian cooking.

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Hot Wheels: 100 Designers Create 100 Simple Wooden Cars That Kids Love

100 Italian designers created wooden cars, intended as toys that kids would actually want to keep.

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GOOD Ideas for Cities: Three Ideas for Venice, Italy

At an event held at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, three teams of architects presented their concepts for the city.

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Open Source Urbanism: Venice Biennale Puts Spotlight On Renegade Redesigners

Exhibit honors yarn bombers, guerrilla gardeners and all manner of DIY civic activists as agents of radical creative disruption.

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Ethical Style: How Ethical Is 'Artisanal' Production? Are 'Artisanal' Products More Ethical?

"Artisanal” no longer necessarily signifies hand-made, skilled craftsmanship. It means whatever a company says it does.

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Is This the End of the European Union?

Europe's financial crisis is undermining one of the great global experiments in democracy and economics.

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Garbage Covers Italy's Historic Spanish District in Naples

As you can see from these photos, the historic Spanish district in Naples is currently littered with garbage.

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Infographic: How Your Diet Affects the Planet

How many Earth's worth of resources would the world's population consume if we all ate a Italian, Malaysian, or American diet.

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Maurizio Cattelan's New Sculpture: A "Screw You" to Somebody

New in front of the stock exchange in Milan: A giant hand, middle finger extended.

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Not a New York Minute

How four Italian cities bucked the traditional urban growth model and started an international trend called Cittaslow. In the...

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Turning the Tables

Tracing the slow-food movement back to its feisty Italian roots. Like so many other aspects of modern life, slow food can...