Don’t ever ask your Italian boyfriend (especially southerners) to do the dishes, or else you’ll hear it from the mother. Never cut your spaghetti with a knife. Having coffee with the opposite sex, even a colleague, is unacceptable. Don’t become his mother...

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Good Italian girlfriends are hard to find for an American 'straniera.'

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Fabio has taken up high cholesterol as his latest hobby, as in fixation.

Strong Catholic beliefs can make their way into all aspects of Italian life.

Silvia Dal Co' give her family's shoe legacy alive in Rome.