A frittela is a deep fried pastry and it's something you'll often find at Italy's Christmas fairs, but not only. It's a kind of deep fried bread, which is then coated in sugar. Not great … [Read more...]
Cappucino art
In some bars here the barmen and women - they are mainly male - create images on the frothy surface of cappucinos. These images can be hearts, leaves or anything else the cappucino artist … [Read more...]
Chocolate pasta
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 … [Read more...]
From Pasta Hell to Pasta Heaven
We had friends round for lunch and being in Italy, we kicked off with pasta. Nothing unusual there, you may think. Well, there was something unusual. This was perfect pasta! Up to … [Read more...]
Italy’s Lentils and Cotechino
In Italy, the traditional New Year meal consists of lentils and a meat like substance which goes by the name of cotechino and, by all accounts, the best cotechino comes from Modena (the … [Read more...]