Katie Parla is a food and beverage educator, cultural historian and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, Travel + Leisure and elsewhere. She is the author of the blog Parla Food, the co-founder of The Rome Digest, and the creator of the dining and drinking guides "Katie Parla's Rome" and "Katie Parla's Istanbul." She lives in Rome.

A Brief History of the Caffè Corretto
How Italy’s famous “corrected coffee”—espresso plus booze—came to be.
- story: Katie Parla
- photo: Lizzie Munro