If Italian design fascinates, intrigues or even inspires you, then you might like to extend your Italian design library. The trouble is the choice of books is vast. Well, Paolo Feroleto who writes about Italian design for BlogfromItaly.com has come up with a list of ten books on Italian design which are well worth investing in.
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?
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.
Italian music blog ChartItalia which follows the contemporary Italian music scene, recently published a list of the top 100 hits in Italy in 2009. So what, I asked myself, was the top Italian music hit of 2009?
For a long time I thought we were lucky enough to have the new fangled, all singing and dancing, much vaunted digital television. No silly little set top box for us, or so I thought.
Branzino and Orata are delicious. They are also very popular here in Italy. Indeed, they are considered something of a delicacy. You really should try them.
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.
There is a minor storm in a small teacup over the salaries paid to some of Italy’s public television personalities in these belt tightening times. ‘Public television’ in Italy refers to the partially state funded RAI channels, which receive income from an annual licence fee and lots and lots of commercial breaks.
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.
