Custom Teaser: We propose four recipes to prepare an exclusive fish menu Italian-style for your New Year’s Eve dinner… Words by Germaine Stafford We propose four recipes to prepare an exclusive fish menu Italian-style for your New Year’s Eve dinner
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Cenone di Capodanno – New year’s eve fish Menu
Image Podcast Language Podcast: Italian Audio La Befana Text Teaser: Andrea Antonioni delves into the tradition of the Epiphany witch. Try reading and listening to the Italian version first then check with the English version. English: Words by Andrea Antonioni A typically Italian festival is that of the Befana – an oldwoman who, on the night of the 5th and 6th January, comes down the chimney, mounted on a broomstick, under the weight of a sack filled to the brim with toys, chocolates and sweets (inthe bottom of which there is quite a bit of ash and coal) and fills the stockings left hanging up by the children.
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Dual Language: La befana is coming – E’ arrivata la Befana!
Custom Teaser: “Oh, it was nothing special – just a family meal”, said my friend Gina’s mother-in-law when I thanked her for a Christmas lunch at which she had served ten different dishes. She was being modest, of course, but there was also some truth in the statement..
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Patti Chiari – "Just a family meal"
I’ve been having an interesting discussion over on Twitter via my @newsfromitaly persona. The question I posed was ‘Who’s your Italian of the Decade? Someone who has raised Italy’s image positively throughout the world.’ Those who have been mulling this question over, Italians and non-Italians, have come up with an interesting list
Custom Teaser: Rail is the best and more convenient option for tourists visiting Italy, the “Bel Paese”. In the latest years, Torino, Milano, Bologna, Firenze, Roma, Napoli and Salerno have become closer and closer, with the progressive activation of the new High Speed (AV) lines… This post was sponsored by Trenitalia With the new High Speed rail services, due for completion on 13th December, the largest Italian cities will be as closer than ever before – with the train becoming the absolute protagonist of travel in Italy.
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Italian Art Cities get closer to each other
Imagine the scene: it is Christmas Eve, you’ve had a busy day at work, you’ve come home, cooked and finally put your two excited toddlers to bed.
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Santa is alive, well and living near Turin
For services rendered my other half received a rather special Christmas hamper this year. The hamper was crammed full of all sorts of Italian food goodies. One such goody was was something called Crutin. Those in the know will tell you that Crutin is an Italian cheese with pieces of black truffe embedded in it. The very same in-the-know people may also say that Crutin tastes very good. Having now sampled said Crutin cheese, I have to say I agree. It is very good. Indeed, so good it was that I decided to write something more about it here.
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Delectable Crutin Cheese
The end of 2009 is proving busy, dramatic and controversial for the Holy See: on 18th December it was announced that Pope Benedict will not stay at Buckingham Palace during his planned State Visit to Britain in September 2010, though he will meet the Queen.
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A dramatic December for the Holy See
Custom Teaser: When I first came to Sicily, I didn’t really understand the Italian love of card games and tombola following a feast, especially at Christmas and New Year. But I do now…
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Patti Chiari – Of Greeks and Tombola
In the immediate aftermath of the 13th December attack on Mr Berlusconi, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni blamed social networking sites for nurturing “a climate of violence.”
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No internet law but self-regulation