In Bastia, where the scent of the sea mingles with the mountain breeze and the lively chatter of tourists echoes through the narrow alleyways, there is a place that has been sweetening summers—and much more—for generations: the Raugi ice-cream shop. Its story began in 1937, when Aladino and Gina started making ice cream, made...
It’s a cold and windy weekend in mid-September when I meet a practically unknown gelato maker. He owns the 281 Frontelago parlor in a small town of about two thousand inhabitants near the Swiss border, right on the lake—Porto Ceresio, in the province of Varese. This is how a long...
The epochal changes that affect almost every area of daily life, from economic to ethical to social, strongly influence consumer behavior. If, on the one hand, globalization tends to standardize differences, on the other it seems to favor the desire to rediscover local areas in citizens, with the revaluation of...
