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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...

My personal Mirto experience

Published on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:16 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition, Wine

Mirto is an Italian Myrtle liqueur made from myrtle berries from Sardinia. And I have my very personal Mirto experience. And no, it doesn’t have to do with me lying drunk on the floor....

The truth about fat in gelato

Published on Monday, 19 January 2015 09:08 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy

Fat in different foods : Gelato has the least

Italians are proud of their gelato. Rightly so, I would add. But don’t you dare call it ice cream. They could be offended. So I asked the spokespeople of the “Gelato University” (yes, it does exist) what...

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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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Santa Claus on a Vespa: Buon natale !

Published on Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:23 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

That`s Christmas – Italian style. Santa Claus on a Vespa. Merry Christmas ! Buon natale ! Happy Holidays !

I just got my vongole for the spaghetti and some nice mormora fish on the market. At the end my favorite fishmonger gave me a very special Christams gift. He wrote down...

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Food from the prison

My personal Mirto experience

The truth about fat in gelato

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

Santa Claus on a Vespa: Buon natale !

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