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Best Selling Lavazza Italian coffee

Best Selling Italian Coffee

I thought it would be interesting for everybody discover what the best selling Italian coffee is on Amazon.com, so off I went on an Italian

Cat’s Milk Mozzarella

In the southern Italian village of Rosaneto in the Basilicata region of Italy, they have cats, lots of them. Indeed, there are so many of these felines that the residents of Rosaneto didn’t know what to do with them. Until, that was, enterprising local entrepreneur, Franco Latitante, had a bright idea. Why not use cat’s milk to make mozzarella?

Prosecco in Venice

What a great way to pass one’s, ahem, 45th birthday – in Venice with lots of Prosecco, good food in good restaurants, and great company too. Even the weather was kind and the great spirit kept the rain at bay too! I like Venice an awful lot.

Delectable Crutin Cheese

For services rendered my other half received a rather special Christmas hamper this year. The hamper was crammed full of all sorts of Italian food goodies. One such goody was was something called Crutin.

Fragolino drink

Fragolino Time

Fragolino is a mysterious drink. For those not in the know, fragolino is a type of grape, which gets its name from the Italian for strawberry – fragola. This grape tends to produce a wine with a sort of strawberry flavour, hence its ‘fragolino’ moniker.

Italian Sunday Lunch

According to a recent survey carried out by the Italian Cookery Academy, it turns out that even in family oriented Italy, the traditional Sunday lunch is starting to become less common.

Prosecco – better than Champagne!

Ah, Prosecco. A wonderful Italian drink. It’s a bubbly straw-yellow white white which often comes from the Conegliano-Valdobbiadenearea areas of Italy. Actually, Prosecco comes in still, semi-sparkling or fully sparkling varieties.