Barbecuing in Italy I have found to be less concentrated on the food and marinades, and more about staying outside and being together while eating fresh, simple food. Some ingredients for a perfect barbecue in Italy: Plenty of pane e pomodoro, bread and tomatoes, the most addictive form of crack that I know of. Start [...]

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A wonderful thing about the end of April and the beginning of May in Italy are two holidays – April 25, La Festa della Liberazione (Liberation Day) and 1 May, Labour Day. If you’re unlucky, both of these days, being six days apart, will fall on days like Wednesday. If it’s a lucky *leap* year, [...]

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I’ve had a lot of people comment to me, “What happened to the cultural aspects of your blog, those little quirks of living in Italy like Santas gyrating to the Yellow Rose of Texas or wearing booties and a cap and nothing else at the gynecologist?” Those moments still happen, and often. But for now, [...]

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Way back in December, while driving around Gargano, Puglia, and after we made a stop in Ischitella to pick up those delicious Marzipan fruit, we stopped in on some of S’ relatives, naturally unannounced. And what a sight I beheld! His cousin was busy at work, making an army of orecchiette all by herself. Orecchiette, [...]

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Do I really need to tell you where I spent the weekend? My friends found round-trip plane tickets for 20 euros, but if you’re not leaving from Milano Linate (and are leaving from Bergamo or Malpensa), you spend more time on shuttles/taxis getting to/from the airport and checking-in than just taking good ol’Trenitalia. Rome is [...]

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