New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!Last year I attended a 4th of July barbecue-aperitivo organized by various expat groups. I didn’t partake of the buffet but I was there more for the company than anything. This year the BBQ [...]

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So, now that it’s over, I can let you in on a big secret.

Yesterday, a package arrived, long overdue and highly anticipated. Quite overdue since my estimated time delivery window expired a few weeks ago and usually with Amazon I never have problems with on-time deliveries to Italy. So I opened a troubleshooter email [...]

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Even this picture is a bit fuzzy, which is how I’m feeling. I had a busy weekend. I cooked a lot and though I would like a break, it has somehow given me more ideas and energized me to do more!
I received free tickets to Heineken’s Jammin Festival (last year I saw Depeche Mode [...]

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It looked so promising, wrapped up like that. I actually wasn’t planning on buying any chocolate when I entered the store. I just wanted to know why there were so many people inside and what was drawing them to this corner pasticceria. Was it the coffee? There was a crowd around the bar.
As I [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Deidre always has some funny Italian signage or newspaper headlines to share, but this is on my way to work every day so I couldn’t resist. I often have what?!? moments in Italy as things that no one notices here would probably make headlines somewhere else, and vice versa.
So many directions I could take [...]

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Another stop on the Tour del Gelato and also another stop in Roccamonfina by Karen! Check out the Tour del Gelato blogroll to participate or see other stops!
And in Gelato news, do you remember when I went to Grom in Florence? Now they are opening their first U.S. branch in New York! If you’re near [...]

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