La Cucina Italiana and Blog from Italy’s Recipe Contest

Here are the results of the first ever cookery contest held on Blog from Italy which was held in conjunction with the US version of prestigious cookery magazine, La Cucina Italiana.

It was a pretty close run thing, but the taste testers, including yours truly relished their taste testing tasks, and graded the resulting recipes on the basis of:

• the overall appeal of the recipes,

• ‘Italianness’

• originality and suitability to the fall season.

I suppose you must be itching to know who the outright winner is, and thus the recipe which tingled our collective taste buds the most.  Here goes: Read more

Magazines Are Dead, Hello Web

One of Blog from Italy’s aims is to tell the world about the good things you will find in Italy.  Good things like Calabria for example, where fellow blogger Cherrye runs a bed and breakfast.

Now, why that funny title to this particular post?  Quite simple.  The web is a much better place to put the hours of hard work writers and journalists spend running up well written informative articles which are often supported by the endeavours of professional photographers.

The magazine articles look impressive, trouble is though, they die.  They become forgotten about almost as soon as the next edition comes out.  That impressive collection of creativity which is a magazine becomes consigned to a bookshelf, or worse, ends up in the bin.  How sad.  It’s almost as if all that effort has gone to waste.

Sadly too, there is no way the writer of the original article can tweak it, update it and increase its longevity.  This is why the Internet is much, much better than printed magazines, newspapers, or even books. Read more

Terrorism Will Bloody the Streets of Italy

A former Italian president, one Francesco Cossiga, strongly believes that terrorist acts of the type commited by Italy’s Red Brigades will once again sully Italy’s streets.

This evening when we tried to watch the RAI news, for some reason each of the three RAI channels were blank.  My Italian other half commented ‘There could be a coup d’état, and we won’t know about it’.  The funny thing was she was not joking.  She really does seem to fear that Italy’s current masters are planning something extreme.

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