Bardonecchia
We’re off the Italian alpine resort of Bardonecchia shortly! I’m looking forward to this weekend in the mountains, and after seeing this brief You Tube video presentation of the area, I’m even more keen on being there!
I know it is a little dated, but it’s the video used to send up the place before the 2006 Turin winter Olympics. It’s only 30 seconds or so long. Have a look and see what you think: Read more
Do You Like Thistles?
Artichoke Thistle
Thistles! Yep, artichokes are apparently a form of thistle, and they certainly have the spines to prove it! Do not let your little ones near those recently acquired artichokes!
The thing is, artichokes, despite their being thistles, are simply delicious. My Italian other half cooks them in a very simple, but very tasty fashion.
If you would like to know how she manages to make artichokes so wonderful, then keep reading to discover a very simple recipe which should qualify as slow fast food! Read more
Bright Lights Shining in the Darkness
The Big M
Today’s newspapers are depressing, there is not a good story to be had what with Italian schools collapsing over the heads of pupils and equally saddening accounts from RAI’s Report documentary. But tunnels often have light at their ends.
This week’s RAI 3 Report investigated the mismanagement of waste disposal down in Rome which appears to be controlled by yet another Italian ‘entrepreneur’ who is out to make money whatever the cost to society. A worrying but by no means unique situation in sunny and beautiful Italy.
Then there is the final section of Saviano’s book Gomorrah which has brought about feelings which the words ‘disconcerting’, ’shocking’, ’saddening’ and ‘dire’ seem to sum up quite succinctly. Italy, it seems, has a distinct tendency towards self-destruction. What a great shame that the country’s political class does not seem to care one jot that vast areas of southern Italy have been and are being turned into vast toxic wastelands. Italy to a great extent seems to be destroying itself from the inside out.
Still there has to be some light doesn’t there? Luckily, there is. Read more
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