On the world’s most popular e-commerce site you can buy a humorous tee with this slogan joke: ” I don’t need Google. My wife knows everything.” If Amazon people were from Pretoro, a village in the Abruzzo region, they would change the joke into: ” I don’t need Google. Zi’ Tunin’ (Uncle Antony), knows everything.” … Continue reading
At La Grande Quercia, dishes follow season cycle, so menus change according to the produce available. Don’t forget to ask for their signature lamb dish, “agnello incaporchiato” [anyello incaporkiato]. It requires a few ingredients: a leg of lamb, extra-virgin olive oil, white wine, rosemary, a couple of cloves of garlic. This recipe comes from the … Continue reading
What happens in Bomba, a village of scarcely a thousand people in the Sangro area (Abruzzo), when a big wedding is on the way? Everybody is invited to the “ricevimento”, an informal party for friends and acquaintances to be held before the proper wedding party. At the ricevimento, among the usual refreshments, a typical local … Continue reading
Since I was a child, summer has always been the synonym for two things: school term end and harvesting time. Now that school days are – alas! – a faraway memory, harvesting time still retains its fascination to me, who I was brought up in a small village and I spent my summer vacations at … Continue reading
The English Idiom “good things come in small packages” translates the Italian “nella botte piccola c’è il vino buono” (small casks carry top-quality wine). If this holds true for “things” in general, it should be truer for wineries. Venea is a 25-acre winery on the hilly backcountry around Fossacesia (Chieti). The name recalls a former … Continue reading
A festival designed for children, a party to celebrate nature and the forest and all its inhabitants – fairies, elves, fauns, jesters, trolls, giants… Read more: International Festival of the Gnomes… via festadeglignomi.it “It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies … Continue reading
Charles De Gaulle used to wonder how anyone can govern a nation – i.e. France – that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese. Well, Big Charles would have had a tough nut to crack if he had been born in Italy, where almost every town or village is proud of its own cheese, cake, wine, … Continue reading
Meet Enzo Scioli, aka “Alonzo”, former Alpine troop and poet from Guardiagrele, (Chieti), Abruzzo. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ~Plato APPETIBILIS VIDEO Ascolta le poesie di Enzo Scioli, (ITA), Maestro del ferro battuto e 1a Tromba della Premiata Banda della Citta’ della … Continue reading
