A Personal Guide to Travel and Life in Italy
This personal guide to travel and life in Italy is culled from over 20 years of experience living and working in Italy. Get the inside scoop on what it’s really like to live in Italy, my favorite places to go in Italy, my recommended hotels and restaurants in Italy and even the darker side of life in Italy and how to cope with its mind-numbing bureaucracy. I’ll cover lots of different topics from luxury to adventure travel in Italy, Italian politics, culinary travel in Italy, Italian language, customs and traditions, as well as how I personally became an expert on Italian furnace parts.
Traditional Foods of Italy – Cucuzza Tenerumi, Sicilian Summer Greens and Soup
Traditionally Italian greens are available in the cooler months of the year, but when you crave greens in the summer, try these Sicilian tenerumi, from the cucuzza plant, a kind of zucchina. Eat them as a simple dish of greens, or make a Sicilian summer soup.
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Wed, 11 Aug 2010
Traditional Foods of Italy-Cipolle di Giarratana Roasted Onions from Sicily
Next to the huge sweet onions of Giarratana, Sicily, all other onions pale in comparison. Roasted or grilled the cipolle di Giarratana are celebrated in an annual festival.
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Lemon Granita Recipe from Sicily
If you don’t have access to good lemon granita where you live, try this recipe for lemon granita and dream of Sicily.
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Sicily Culinary Traditions – Where to Find the Best Lemon Granita and Brioche in Modica
Lemon granita and brioche are a culinary tradition in Sicily, but it’s getting harder to find the real thing. Here’s where to find the best lemon granita and homemade brioche in Modica, Sicily.
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Italian Food Traditions–Furtaies Recipe for Funnel Cakes with Grappa from the Dolomites
The next time you see funnel cakes at a state fair, ask if they add grappa to the batter. That’s a key ingredient in this traditional dessert in the Dolomites, where funnel cakes are called by a variety of names –such as furtaies, strauben, or just plain delicious.
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Italian Desserts – Panna Cotta Recipe, Technique and Sauces
Panna cotta is an easy Italian dessert that can be served with a sauce of fruit, chocolate or caramel. This recipe for panna cotta includes a technique for making it silky smooth.
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Italian Food Traditions – Marmellata di Amarene – Sour Cherry Jam
Making my favorite Italian jam, marmellata di amarene - sour cherry jam - is simple enough when you've got a cherry tree at hand, and it barely needs a recipe. But then there's the pitting...
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Involtini – Recipe from a Cooking Class in Sicily
This recipe for involtini, little meat rolls with a citrus flavored stuffing, comes from a casual cooking class in our home kitchen in Sicily.
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Idyllic Coastal Walking in Tuscany’s La Maremma Regional Park
Southern Tuscany is home to an area known as La Maremma, and includes wild, untamed countryside and beautiful walking in a protected park on Tuscany’s coast. Anita reports from a walking tour in La Maremma.
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Italy’s Traditional DOP Cheeses – Provola of the Nebrodi Mountains in Sicily
One of Italy’s historic cheeses is Provola dei Nebrodi, a DOP cheese made in the mountains above Messina, Sicily, and traditionally aged in damp caves.
