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How Often Can I Eat Pasta?

Are oodles of noodles in your future? Signs point to ‘yes.’

How the Maraschino Cherry Became a Comfortingly Trashy American Icon

Just when did the syrupy, lipstick-red lynchpin of ice cream sundaes, 1970s fruit salads and throwback cocktails conquer the world (and your grandparents’ home bar)?

I Disgraced My Italian Ancestors With Robert Pattinson’s Microwave Pasta

This sugar-filled monstrosity is called piccolini cuscino, and if you try to make it like he did, you’ll burn your house down

Italians Find Quarantine Relief in a Cloud of Cigarette Smoke

Sheltering in place from a deadly respiratory virus, Italy can’t say arrivederci to its long love affair with tobacco