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Food from the prison

Published on Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:00 Category: Business / Economy, Curiosities, Food, Italy

Last Monday at the weekly market: The stand just opposite from where I usually buy my vegetables and fruit has an interesting origin. On the banner it says: “Food from the prison: From the University...

What Nonna did with her Sicilian Oranges

Published on Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:01 Category: Food, Italy, Tradition

What do you do when your Sicilian friends send you a whole crate of oranges ? This is the problem ByItaly’s Nonna had to face. She and her family could...

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Only in Italy: My gourmet-hairdresser – Part 2

Published on Wednesday, 14 January 2015 11:39 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy

My gourmet-Hairdresser at work at his Pizza oven

Here are some pictures of my hairdresser Lino from Dionea at work, precisely at his 2nd “job” at home at his pizza oven. Yes, he does have a real wood fired pizza oven...

Only in Italy: My gourmet-haidresser

Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2015 13:45 Category: Business / Economy, Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

You are convinced that hair dressers only have gossip magazines ? Not in Italy. My hair dresser in Milan Dionea offers -apart from “Wired” in Italian – the latest cooking magazines. And while he dries my...

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Italians and their tomatoes

Published on Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:46 Category: Curiosities, Food, Italy

One of the most surprising things in Italy is the variety of tomatoes. There ist not just the big round one and the cherry tomato, as you might think. No, there is the Occhio di...

Food from the prison

What Nonna did with her Sicilian Oranges

Only in Italy: My gourmet-hairdresser – Part 2

Only in Italy: My gourmet-haidresser

Italians and their tomatoes

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