Katia Amore
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Katia has been collaborating with Italy Magazine for several years now and in late 2010 joined as the Editor - providing a host of new ideas and a fresh direction for the site.
She started working for the media when she was just a student at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, working for a local TV channel and collaborating with various magazines. She then got her Master Degree and Ph.D in Ethnic Relations from Warwick University in the UK, where she also studied for her Certificate in Journalism.
She currenlty lives in Sicily, where she runs her cookery classes and is working on a Sicilian Cookery book.
Articles by Katia Amore
On the 10th of May, Italian singer Emma Marrone will compete in the European Broadcasting Union’s 2014 Eurovision Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, beco…
A day after the Corte d' Appello (Court of Appeal) in Florence published its explanation for the latest guilty verdict for Amanda Knox (who …
This week Italy kicked off the one-year countdown to the start of Milan Expo 2015 with a special event organized by the city of Milan administrat…
On 23 April, several Italian towns celebrate the Festa di San Giorgio. Born in Lydda, Roman Palestine, he was a soldier in the Roman…
Despite the growing perception of rising hotel prices in Italy tends to make people believe the Bel Paese is getting too expensive, HRS Hotel Price Ra…
The Italian film "Le Meraviglie" (The Wonders), directed by Alice Rohrwacher, has been selected to compete for the Golden Palm at the 67th Cannes Film…
Milan court ruled that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will have to work for four consecutive hours at least once a week at the Fondazione Sac…
Last night at The Voice of Italy, Suor Cristina Scuccia, won her battle singing Cindy Lauper's 80s classic "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".
Coach J-Ax sa…
The Via Crucis devotion (Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross) has been practiced by Roman Catholics for many centuries. It commemorates the pass…
The Holy Week traditions in Sicily are an incredible combination of religious festivals with archaic celebrations of the rebirth of nature, of spring…
If you want to try to learn how to count from 1 to 100 in Italian, the following video shot in Sicily is the perfect tool to do it while having fun. I…
When I was a child, every evening my mum and my grandmother sat in religious silence to watch Colonel Bernacca's weather forecast on RAI 1. "He was th…
A restored version of Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece, Roma Città Aperta - Rome, Open City is being re-released in cinemas across Italy, almost 70 y…
With more and more restrictions on the amount of liquids you can take on a plane, chances are you will pack just the essential if you are travelling w…
Confetti, the small pieces or streamers of paper, which are usually thrown at Carnival parades and wedding celebrations, are actually known as coriand…
This week we commemorated the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo's death and we visited Carrara marble quarries, where this incredible Renaissance arti…
Carolina Kostner, one of Italy's most popular athletes, won the bronze medal in the Olympic women's figure skating at the Sochi Winter Olimp…
We've decided to spare you the details and the political drama of the latest developments in Italian politics so far. However, as it has been confirme…
While news that the Miami villa of notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone is on the market for $8.5 million (photo at end) gets the attention of lovers…
This week, the New York Times presented a slideshow titled, “Extra Virgin Suicide: The Adulteration of Italian Olive Oil”, about olive oil fraud.
One…
Recipes by Katia Amore
This delicious risotto recipe serves four and is perfect for autumn, when radicchio is at its richest potential.
Spaghetti all'Amatriciana are a symbol of the Italian culinary tradition.
The original recipe was created in Amatrice, a small town on the border…
All over Emilia-Romagna you can find the region’s famous snack Piadina served with local cheese or cured meat. But this special kind of flatbread,…
Made with savoiardi (or ladyfingers), dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone cheese, often flavored with liquor…
Pasta alla Carbonara is one of the most renown dishes from Lazio and the city of Rome in particular.
There are various speculations about its…
Pizza margherita is, for many, the true Italian flag.
In 1889 — 28 years after the unification of Italy — Queen Margherita of Savoy,…
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