“Sometime around sunset,” my Italian teacher told me when I first asked him years ago what time people fare l’aperitivo (‘do the aperitivo’) here. Aperitivo in Italy is a must. It is a way of life, ...

Aperitivo culture on the whole, if you will, has had quite a moment recently — both at restaurants and in bookstore aisles. One of the first cookbooks I can recall tapping into the bounty of Italian ...