Aperitivo is one of my favorite reasons to live in Italy, right behind gelato and pasta. Also known as aperitif in other parts of the world, it comes from aperitivus or aperire, Latin meaning to open. Open your palate before your meal! Aperitivo is one of the things Milano does best, and it makes the…
Early Morning in Venice
I had some visitors in town recently, and though their trip was over by the time I posted How to Order an Italian Coffee and How to Avoid a Pickpocket and those posts were no help to them, I was lucky enough to be able to join them on the weekend in Venice and do…
How to Order an Italian Coffee in Italy
How to Order an Italian Coffee in Italy is now a book on Amazon Kindle with dozens of full-color photos and an Italian pronunciation guide! Buy your copy now! There are so many different types of Italian coffee, and by now we know them all, right? Latte, mocha, Frappuccino… You won’t find a single drink…
Digestive Sugar and Bush Visiting Trastevere
I’m sure everyone is pretty comfortable with the concept of a digestive (liquor). But did you know that you can take a digestive sugar? As I showed Shelley this past weekend in Milan, there exists something as wonderful as zucchero matricale, “medicinal/digestive sugar” here. Sugar that you can, nay, you MUST eat to make sure…
Last Minute at La Scala (Teatro alla Scala)
A few weeks ago, my friend got tickets to a recital by Mariella Devia, an Italian soprano at Teatro alla Scala. Since you remember that I sang for years (and currently can only torture my co-workers), I love live music, choirs and opera. Many of my friends studied music or are professional musicians and I…
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