January – 2015 – Blog By Italy

Verona: It’s not Valentine’s day, it’s Valentine’s week

Published on Thursday, 29 January 2015 12:28 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tourism, Tradition, Travel

Remember Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ? Well, their city is Verona. So Verona is THE Valentine city in Italy. You can hardly get any more romatic. The tourism offica knows that and...

La Vucciria: A picture returns to life

Published on Tuesday, 27 January 2015 10:29 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

The famous picture of Renato Guttuso “La Vucciria” – a Palermo market scene – is not only going to be exposed at the EXPO in Milan this year, which is all about food....

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Italian food: Poor food, but great food

Published on Monday, 26 January 2015 10:14 Category: Culture, Food, Italy

There is a thing about Italian cuisine that makes it so different from French cuisine. French cuisine is great, but expensive. Italian cuisine is cheap, but great. And it is everyday like...

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Srange fruits from Sicily: Cedar

Published on Friday, 23 January 2015 11:18 Category: Curiosities, Food, Italy

There was some strange fruit on the market. Cedro – cedar. I have seen them before. But being ignorant I asked the obvious question: How do you eat it ? “As a salad”, I...

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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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F YMonth: January 29, 2015

Verona: It’s not Valentine’s day, it’s Valentine’s week

La Vucciria: A picture returns to life

Italian food: Poor food, but great food

Srange fruits from Sicily: Cedar

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

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