Alexa Ahern
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Alexa is a journalist and translator and has been a contributing writer for Italy Magazine since 2022. After trading in Missouri for Milan nearly a decade ago, she feels fully “Italianized,” using allora with unironic enthusiasm and complaining about bureaucracy like a veteran. Her academic background is in Journalism, Italian and Mediterranean Studies, and she is interested in human-driven stories about the land, food culture and society.
Articles by Alexa Ahern
It’s not only Greece that’s burning. From the tip of Puglia to the island of Sicily, the beautiful macchia mediterranea — Mediterranean scrub…
John Steinbeck did warn us about the stairs.
In his 1953 essay “Positano” in Harper’s Bazaar, the author depicted an Amalfi Coast that in some ways i…
Silvio Berlusconi once called himself the “Jesus Christ of politics.” It seemed he never cared much about weighing his words as a public figure. But a…
Emilia-Romagna and parts of Le Marche have been submerged in devastating floods over the past week. Highways are now rivers, fields of crops are lakes…
Piazzale Loreto in the north of Milan is an eyesore of the excessive cementificazione of Italian cityscapes. An intersection of seven major thoroughfa…
Emanuela Borio spends her days in the gardens of the past, among the artistic topiaries, observing colorful beds of perennials, and in the shade of 16…
I think it’s safe to say no cuisine kindles such universal love quite like Italian food.
When the Italian Ministries of Agriculture and Culture…
Italy is parched.
For the past 13 months, the country has been experiencing a historic drought, the worst in 70 years. It has produced startling imag…
It was difficult for Yaryna Shendryk to hold back tears as she recounted fleeing with her three children from her home in Sumy, Ukraine, one year earl…
Is the journey the destination, as they say — or is the best destination really just a good meal? If you’re more for the latter, the rifugio-hopping t…
It’s been months since the alarm first sounded on the drought that’s been ongoing in Italy since late last year, causing the government to declare a s…
The ancient trees of the Piana degli Ulivi Monumentali line a flat stretch of land along the Adriatic sea between Ostuni and Monopoli, in Puglia. They…
Olive oil has incredible depth and variety. If you aren’t carefully selecting and correctly using extra virgin olive oil, now’s the time to start. We…
Exit polls in Italy’s September 25 elections showed a clear majority for the right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, all but guaranteeing that she…
A patchwork of geometric plots alternate between lines of green grapevines, bushy orchard groves and fields ablaze with poppies. We are in wine countr…
For Francesca Paternoster, honey is like music, there’s one for every emotion. And the honey she has grown up with comes in endless varieties. There a…
Mystery shrouds the migration of the Walser people from the Valais region of Switzerland to the valleys of northern Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the 1…
Just an hour northwest of Milan, the city of Varese is an often-overlooked destination with a lot to see, whether you’re into culture and art or the o…