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The entrance to Caffé Greco, the oldest café in Rome.

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Italy's Coffee Culture Brims With Rituals And Mysterious Rules

1:29pm July 14, 2017

by Sylvia Poggioli

Can you drink cappuccino after breakfast? Should you take espresso in a cup or a glass? Italy, perhaps the spiritual home of coffee, has much to say about when and how to enjoy it.

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Mimosa cake is made of layers of sponge cake brushed with citrus liqueur and liberally spread with pastry cream, then topped with small cubes of even more sponge cake that are meant to mimic the small blooms of the mimosa flower. It's the taste of the Fes

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On Italy's Feminist Holiday, Women Have Their Cake And Eat It, Too

2:30pm March 08, 2017

by Kristen Hartke

Leave it to the Italians to take a holiday steeped in women's rights and turn it into Festa Della Donna, when women leave menfolk behind to celebrate each other with flowers, wine and above all, cake.