During the month of February Carnevale celebrations follow each other. This is the time of the year when Venice goes in full costume during the weekends, and street parades take place every weekend in every other town, culminating on Fat Tuesday, Martedi’ Grasso, which this year falls on February 24th. Traditionally, this is the time [...]
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February in Italy is the month of Carnival. During the week preceeding Ash Wednesday, every town features some sort of festivity for Carnevale, the last spike of festivity before lent begins. It’s a time of frappe (also called sfrappole, crostoli, chiacchiere, bugie, and so on with a different name in each region!) and other fried [...]
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An Italian proverb says: “Al contadino non far sapere Quanto e’ buono il formaggio con le pere” (Don’t let the farmer know how good cheese is with pears) It’s a funny proverb that, as a kid, I always got wrong. When winter would come around and pears started to show up on the table, my [...]
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