It has been a little under two weeks since Italy announced the findings in the Brunello di Montalcino scandal. In case you haven't been following this case, Italian authorities — prompted by the United States — started an investigation to find out whether some renowned manufacturers of Brunello ...

By now, you've probably heard about the case of the American girl and her Italian boyfriend accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher. As it stands now, American Amanda Knox is set to serve 30 years in an Italian prison. Is she guilty? I really don't know, as I haven't followed the ...

Olive oil "fraud" in Italy is rampant. In fact, tons of so-called "extra virgin olive oil" is made from "illegal importations of seed oil and cheap olive oil from outside the E.U." In the most recent New Yorker, Tom Mueller discusses the increasingly corrupt business that has become the olive ...