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One of my favorite Italian food proverbs illustrates the pain of a centuries-old system of agriculture that did not die out until well after World War II.

The Italian language is loaded with colourful (and downright bizarre) ways to express a point. Here are ten particularly imaginative pearls of wisdom. We've done our best to render these very Italian ...

Is it good or bad to be 'in the wolf's mouth'? What do people 'mistake fireflies' for? Why might you be 'a dead cat'? Test your knowledge of Italian proverbs by taking The Local's quiz.

Yesterday news broke that Giuseppe “Beppe” Bigazzi -- the septuagenarian host of a popular Italian cooking program -- had been axed from the show after praising his family’s recipe for cat ...

An Italian proverb, which I just learned yesterday.Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of ...

"IT'S good to trust; it's better not to," goes an Italian proverb. Player 1 may not know these particular words of wisdom, but chances are she's thinking much the same as she tries to decide ...