Alexa Ahern
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Alexa is a journalist and translator and has been a contributing writer for Italy Magazine since 2022. After trading in Missouri for Milan nearly a decade ago, she feels fully “Italianized,” using allora with unironic enthusiasm and complaining about bureaucracy like a veteran. Her academic background is in Journalism, Italian and Mediterranean Studies, and she is interested in human-driven stories about the land, food culture and society.
Articles by Alexa Ahern
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 10:10
It’s not only Greece that’s burning. From the tip of Puglia to the island of Sicily, the beautiful macchia mediterranea — Mediterranean scrub — of sou…
Thu, 07/27/2023 - 06:50
John Steinbeck did warn us about the stairs.
In his 1953 essay “Positano” in Harper’s Bazaar, the author depicted an Amalfi Coast that in some ways i…
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 15:20
Silvio Berlusconi once called himself the “Jesus Christ of politics.” It seemed he never cared much about weighing his words as a public figure. But a…
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 14:15
Emilia-Romagna and parts of Le Marche have been submerged in devastating floods over the past week. Highways are now rivers, fields of crops are lakes…
Sun, 05/14/2023 - 17:00
Piazzale Loreto in the north of Milan is an eyesore of the excessive cementificazione of Italian cityscapes. An intersection of seven major thoroughfa…
Mon, 05/08/2023 - 01:45
Emanuela Borio spends her days in the gardens of the past, among the artistic topiaries, observing colorful beds of perennials, and in the shade of 16…
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Thu, 03/30/2023 - 14:25
I think it’s safe to say no cuisine kindles such universal love quite like Italian food.
When the Italian Ministries of Agriculture and Culture nomi…
Thu, 03/23/2023 - 07:20
Italy is parched.
For the past 13 months, the country has been experiencing a historic drought, the worst in 70 years. It has produced startling imag…
Wed, 03/01/2023 - 09:37
It was difficult for Yaryna Shendryk to hold back tears as she recounted fleeing with her three children from her home in Sumy, Ukraine, one year earl…
Mon, 01/23/2023 - 12:17
Is the journey the destination, as they say — or is the best destination really just a good meal? If you’re more for the latter, the rifugio-hopping t…
Mon, 11/14/2022 - 09:40
It’s been months since the alarm first sounded on the drought that’s been ongoing in Italy since late last year, causing the government to declare a s…
Mon, 10/24/2022 - 02:40
The ancient trees of the Piana degli Ulivi Monumentali line a flat stretch of land along the Adriatic sea between Ostuni and Monopoli, in Puglia. They…
Thu, 10/20/2022 - 08:16
Olive oil has incredible depth and variety. If you aren’t carefully selecting and correctly using extra virgin olive oil, now’s the time to start. We…
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Mon, 09/26/2022 - 03:08
Exit polls in Italy’s September 25 elections showed a clear majority for the right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, all but guaranteeing that she…
Tue, 06/21/2022 - 04:25
A patchwork of geometric plots alternate between lines of green grapevines, bushy orchard groves and fields ablaze with poppies. We are in wine countr…
Tue, 05/24/2022 - 10:53
For Francesca Paternoster, honey is like music, there’s one for every emotion. And the honey she has grown up with comes in endless varieties. There a…
Wed, 05/04/2022 - 11:33
Mystery shrouds the migration of the Walser people from the Valais region of Switzerland to the valleys of northern Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the 1…
Mon, 04/04/2022 - 16:07
Just an hour northwest of Milan, the city of Varese is an often-overlooked destination with a lot to see, whether you’re into culture and art or the o…