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The Milano Files
The Milano Files champions the food, wine, beverage, and lifestyle culture of Milan - home to Italy's most electric food scene. Host Jaclyn DeGiorgio, who considers herself Milan's cheerleader-in-chief, is a food tour guide as well as a food, wine, and travel writer who's lived in the Lombard capital for over a decade. The fiercest champion for her adopted city and its surroundings you'll ever meet, Jaclyn celebrates Milan's, and most of Northern Italy's, overlooked, though no less noteworthy allure--especially on the food front.
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The Sanremo Italian Song Festival 2025
Milan-based food writer and food tour guide Jaclyn DeGiorgio veers fuori strada from her usual purview to discuss one of Italy's most cherished pop culture traditions: the Sanremo Italian Song Festival. As the contentverse is saturated with "Italysplaining" and "how to be Italian" tips by self-styled authorities, she wanted to talk about an occasion that's super special to the Italians.
Links below to the sources used for and/or cited in the episode:
- Sky Italia broadcasting details
- La Stampa's story about the orchestra
- La Repubblica's story about the special guests
- Rai News story about the covers' night
- Eurovision article about the history of Sanremo
- Another Eurovision Sanremo story
- Vogue Italia story about the Sanremo programming lineup
- Eurovision's Wikipedia page
- RTL Radio interview with Massimo Ranieri
- Ripe Labs article about Sanremo and internet traffic in Italy
- First Online FantaSanremo details
- Sorrisi's list of the 2025 Sanremo songs
- The Post International Sanremo Orchestra details
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