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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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Self-Service Draft Wine at the bookshop

Published on Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:27 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tradition, Wine

Only in Italy: At the Feltrinelli bookstore in the new high rise in Piazza Gae Aulenti in Milan you can have a nice glas of wine with your book. With your rechargable card you can...

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Befana – the strange Italian witch

Published on Tuesday, 6 January 2015 10:24 Category: Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

Her name is Befana, she is a witch, rides on her broom and she is ugly. But the Befana usually smiles and brings presents to the kids if they have been nice. Naughty...

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Slow Food, Slow Life, Slow Cruise

Published on Thursday, 18 December 2014 09:57 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tourism, Tradition, Travel, Wine

Slowing down, enjoying life far awaz from the rush seems to be the megatrend in the world today. Not fast food but slow food. Not fast travel but slow travel. Italy’s...

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Huge Price Increase of Italian Olive Oil leads to speculation and olive theft

Published on Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:06 Category: Business / Economy, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

Italians call their olive oil “green gold”. This year the comparison couldn’t be more fitting: Prices are increasing so much that they resemble more and more the...

Prosecco beats champaign

Published on Monday, 1 December 2014 09:36 Category: Curiosities, Italy, Tradition, Wine

Forget champaign. Try Prosecco instead. Italian bubbles beat French bubbles. Italian sparkling wine has surpassed the more blasé champaign. The typical Northern Italian sparkling wines last year have sold 307 million bottles. That was three million...

Zibibbo: A sweet wine is part of the Unesco world heritage

Published on Saturday, 29 November 2014 10:03 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition, Wine

Zibibbo is not just a delicious sweet wine to taste after a nice dinner. It is also part of Italian culture – and now of human culture as...

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...

What Nonna did with her Sicilian Oranges

Only in Italy: My gourmet-hairdresser – Part 2

Only in Italy: My gourmet-haidresser

Self-Service Draft Wine at the bookshop

Befana – the strange Italian witch

Slow Food, Slow Life, Slow Cruise

Huge Price Increase of Italian Olive Oil leads to speculation and olive theft

Prosecco beats champaign

Zibibbo: A sweet wine is part of the Unesco world heritage

Italians and their tomatoes

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