Life in the Living Museum
Oh dear, Italy is not at all happy with the creators of offensive Apple app 'What Country', which succinctly sums up Italy with four words: pizza, mafia, pasta and scooters. Indeed, so discontent with this affront to Italy is Italy's Minister of Tourism Brambilla that she has instructed lawyers to … [Read more...]
To celebrate the continued success of his idol Silvio Berlusconi, small Sicilian pasta maker, Benito Destroni, has created a new type of ravioli in his honour."I love Silvio. What he has done for Italy, for Italian television, and for the glory of Italy.", said Mr Destroni, from his little … [Read more...]
First of all, I've been itching to tell you that next Friday I'll be posting details of Blog from Italy's first recipe contest.As a little incentive, there will also be prizes in the form of three one year subscriptions which have been kindly offered by the US version of highly regarded and … [Read more...]
I have discovered Rummo pasta and I like it. Why is it a cut above your run-of-the-mill Italian pasta? Well, for two reasons.Firstly, because Rummo use good quality (Australian!) wheat, Rummo pasta has a higher than normal protein level, and secondly, because Rummo's special slow … [Read more...]
I forgot to mention that at the Paolo Sarpi street fair we picked up a bag of 'cocoa' flavoured pasta. It's brown, as you would expect and is real pasta, not just chocolate dressed up to look like pasta.We have not tried it yet, but apparently it goes very will with 'salsa di noci', which I … [Read more...]
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