The recipe is at the bottom of this post, but first you have to hear the story for its inspiration. October is (expat) birthday month??? Besides my own, it’s Michelle from Michellanea‘s birthday month, and another Michelle from Bleeding Espresso, Melinda from Living in Florence, and Tracie from My Life Italian and Sigrid from Cavoletto [...]

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I would say the most common email I get from the website is from people asking me, “I want to move to Italy/I’m moving to Italy. I need help!” While everyone has an individual story, and I love hearing them, I find that I am responding with some common information each time. Update: I am [...]

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I’m excited to announce that this month, Ms. Adventures in Italy has been honored as one of the winners for Best Originality, in July’s Does My Blog Look Good in This (DMBLGiT) contest! This is the winning photo, first published on Watermelon Sorbetto Granita! Thanks so much for the honor and check out the other [...]

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Note: Feed readers, there are several videos embedded in this post. Click through to the site to view them. I told you how summer means aperitivo in Italy, but it also means “Latin music” to many Italians. There is usually one song in Spanish that will follow you to every corner and corner shop in [...]

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Garlic and Italian food seem to go hand-in-hand….in America. In Italy, it’s a different story. Garlic is one of the things that gets categorized as “pesante” (or heavy/difficult to digest), the concept I discussed in Parmigiano Reggiano Stuffed Onions Wrapped in Prosciutto di Parma. In fact, it’s even been the subject of a recent controversy [...]

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