Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, review – wide-eyed gorge fest fails to do what it says on the tin

You’ll know the cereal advert face, even if you don’t know it’s called that. Someone is offered a bowl of cereal, they take it reluctantly and then…

William Sitwell reviews Miscusi, London: ‘The food and wine I was offered was an abomination’

Miscusi sashays into London with breezy confidence. There are 12 branches across Italy, in seven cities. Its founder, Alberto Cartasegna, pronounces that this is not just a…

Forget mince pies – how Italian panettone won over the great British Christmas

According to a representative for Eataly, the vast Italian food market in London which has sold thousands of panettone since November and 600 already this week, the…