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A giant white truffle weighing 1.5 kilograms went off in a bid to the Macau casino mogul and billionaire Stanley Ho for an astounding $330,000 at an auction on Saturday, who outbid personalities of Damien Hirst and Sheik Mansoor Bin Zayed al Nahyan...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
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he 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia to Pisa when a rear car plowed into a residential neighborhood beside the train station in the Tuscan...
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While vacationing in Pisa earlier this summer, a roommate of mine at the hostel I was staying in in Rome recommended at I spend a day in Cinque Terre.
Accessible by a...
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The Economist has succeeded to catch some curious glances through this billboard. By shooting some questions, the billboard leaves the viewer groping for answers. The...
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Baci perugina, the chocolate brand in Italy, banks on love and romance to make it sweet and tempting. In its integrated campaign, the chocolate brand decided to sell...
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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied allegations he paid prostitutes who attended parties at his official residencies.
In an interview with Italian...
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Three Italian female academics are calling on Gordon Brown’s wife, Sarah, President Obama’s wife, Michele and other leaders’ spouses not to attend the...
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Given the current economic crisis, designers are not experimenting with avant-garde clothing, but sticking to easy to understand, familiar styles from the classic suit...
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For years, millions of hot-blooded Italian men have secretly wished they could gatecrash one of the parties hosted by their ebullient prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi,...
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One word was on the minds of Italians yesterday: blackmail.
Could the claims emerging daily against Silvio Berlusconi leave him open to the kind of persuasion that...
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It is troubling enough that Italy’s rhetorically offensive Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi comes from a family that controls “half the television output,...
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At the World Air Games in Turin, Italy, the much-awaited SkySpark set a world record in achieving a top speed of 155 mph. SkySpark is a 100% electrically powered...
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So many questions. How did Silvio Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi become friends in the first place? Even more pressingly, how did Muammar Gaddafi - expeller of Libyan...
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Two Japanese nationals were detained by Italian financial police last week after trying to enter Switzerland with $134 billion worth of undeclared U.S. bonds, mostly...
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The magistrate wondered — in all seriousness — if my recent article in The New York Times about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s personal life could be evidence...
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Philippe Daniel opens a slim briefcase so buyers can glimpse his wares, then snaps it shut with a wary glance over his shoulder.Daniel is not dealing in contraband but...
made popular Feb 22 2008
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A Macau casino mogul bid a record $330,00 at auction Saturday to win a giant white truffle dug up in Tuscany, organizers said.Billionaire Stanley Ho made the winning...
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A white truffle weighing more than three pounds, dug up in Tuscany by a truffle-sniffing dog, will be auctioned this week in Florence for charity.Truffle hunter...
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The 40-seat, 10-course gourmet dinner organized by the Lebua luxury hotel, Bangkok, cooked by six three-star Michelin chefs _ four from France and one each from Germany...
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Winter Fancy Food Show, which was held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, was a buffet of specialty foods in premium chocolate, prosciutto de Parma, cheeses of...
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After-dinner coffee is oft considered as the happy tradition in North America, where hosts, end dinner and cocktail parties giving their guests a rich jolt of java....
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Upscale restaurants in the US have found the most sophisticated way to appeal their guests while they wait for their first entree of starters. Washington Times...
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A recent auction on the eBay is going to stun you, where Tom Bridge from Newburgh, Lancashire is going to put up his renovated cheese toast, costing £345 a slice...
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A renovation of a classic snack can cost you a mint...even if it is a classic cheese toast, costing £345 a slice. The cheese toast is recreated by Tom Bridge from...
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In Oregon’s first truffle festival about three dozen truffle hunters hunted for the most prized truffles without dogs and pigs. The truffles were hunted following...
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Truffles are expensive, no doubts about that. But people bid like crazy for this exotic mound of fungus. Two months back on the 13th of November, truffles were sold for...
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Our friend Esther at foodmall reports of this most expensive truffle in the world. The white truffle can’t be cultivated, infact, the white truffle is a fungus...
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The history of truffle reveals that trees were imbrued with the truffle fungus in the hope of creating a local truffle industry. I must say with the discovery of a...
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An auction organizer shows an Italian white truffle said to be Tuber Magnatum Pico, found in Frosolone, near Isernia in Molise central-Italian region, is shown in a Rome hotel, Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008. Auction organizers said the specimen, which weighs...
