New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!Welcome ivillage.com readers! I’m an American living in Italy and I love to cook, eat and travel! You’ll find recipes (like My Sweet, Fried Balls of Ricotta), posts about discovering Italy (like An Army [...]

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An update from last year’s Italian Summer Music 2007 roundup: Check out my Italian Music section to immediately buy some popular albums!
I usually use the FestivalBar CDs as a bit of a barometer for the Italian hits [...]

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The Tour of Gelato needs your tastebuds!

If you’re not familiar with the Tour del Gelato, it’s your favorite bloggers going to their favorite gelaterias in and out of Italy and telling the world about it! They link back to the Tour del Gelato blogroll, and I add the entry to the list!
Yep, I know [...]

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Note: I’m a bit closer to the Internet, but still not back in my own kitchen in Milan. I’ll be doing a giveaway in September when I’m back, but in the meantime, enjoy some non-giveaway posts…
I get mail. Lots of it. Most of the information I send back I’ve already talked about in my post [...]

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I’m in the States right now, and one of the things I’m happy to do is be at the 2008 BlogHer conference here in San Francisco. And, not only am I going to be there, I’m working it! If you see a volunteer running around with dark, curly hair and a T-shirt with the logo [...]

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My mom enjoyed showing me “her” New Mexico and we took a short trip up to Santa Fe for a few days since it’s a hot spot and the state’s capital.
I enjoyed Santa Fe: there are a ton of art galleries and it actually has a historic center much like a “centro” in an [...]

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Not sure if any of you missed me, but two weeks from my last post, I find myself in a completely different situation.
Here, I find scorpions floating in the toilet, I chase cottontail rabbits with my camera and never get close enough, a roadrunner perches on the dividing wall in the backyard, and I [...]

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Inside a Pugliese Tarallificio

Taralli con lo zucchero
Preparing Scaldatelli
Boiling and Baking Scaldatelli

So last time I told you that the scaldatelli weren’t ready for the oven yet. That’s because they need to get boiled first! The scaldatelli are loaded onto racks and dipped into boiling water for a few minutes.

After being removed from the water, they are [...]

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