The American actress Debi Mazar met Tuscan native Gabriele Corcos in Florence in the summer of 2001. She was on holiday; he was in love. By the end of…
Andrew Cotto
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Andrew Cotto is an award-winning novelist and a regular contributor to The New York Times. Andrew has also written for Italy magazine, Parade, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, La Cucina Italiana, Brooklyn Magazine, Rachael Ray In Season, Relish, The Huffington Post, the Good Men Project, Condé Nast Traveler, Maxim and more. Andrew has lived in Italy on two occasions and visits as often as possible. His official home is Brooklyn, New York.
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In February of 2020, I attended the opening of a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. The Italian journalists in attendance spoke of the Coronavirus sp…
I was warned of the steps in Positano by John Steinbeck. He wrote of their peril in his famous essay named after the town on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. I w…
Considered among the “Grandfathers” of Italian wine, Brunello di Montalcino had maintained a patriarchal association since the mid-1800s when producti…
The first thing I did during the lockdown—after seriously stocking up on food and wine—was escape to Italy. Sort of. Without the ability to actually f…
In late February, I was at a press event for Cremini, a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. The boutique space teemed with energy because the restaura…
There’s a literary theory that the most important character in any narrative is the setting. As a writer who loves the “where and when” of story, I’m…
It may seem strange that the face of a modern Italian renaissance would be a cherubic one, covered in a sandy beard, backed by a sandy bun on the lang…