Naples fetes pizza award, Obama too. Street party hands out 1,000 free pizzas
ANSA. Naples threw a big street party Thursday to celebrate its pizza getting protection from clones - and feted United States President Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize too. (Read the article)
Italians living longer, in good shape. Life expectancy up four years since 1990, says health ministry
ANSA. talians are living longer and feeling better than they did 20 years ago, according to a report on national health delivered Thursday by senior health officials in Rome. (Read the article)
Monster truffle up for auction. Satellite sale of 900g tuber in Rome, London, Moscow, Macao
ANSA. The world's truffle-loving elite are gearing up for what looks set to be a nail-biting bidding war on Saturday when a giant white truffle goes under the hammer at an international auction. (Read the article)
December 11, 2009
Leonardo Sciascia’s Mafia
Predictably, rhetoric marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Sciascia on November 20. But rhetoric was the opposite of Sciascia. If anything, the Sicilian author was about silences: pregnant silences, dangerous silences, silences that communicate entire worlds with the least nod of a head, or at most with one of the tiny handwritten notes in code, pizzini, used by Bernardo Provenzano.
Puffy Little Balls in Honey. Struffoli for Christmas
For many Italians, it would not seem like Christmas without struffoli.
December 11, 2009
Give Back the Cow!
Bea Spadacini
A Rwandan Cow
On Air with the Seventh National Public Dialogue
Quei Giorni di Piazza Fontana. Libri: “Una storia quasi soltanto mia”
"Questa è la storia che Licia Pinelli mi raccontò all'inizio degli anni ottanta. Era rimasta appartata, quasi silenziosa per una decina d'anni, da quell'inverno del 1969, quando la bomba fece strage alla Banca dell'Agricoltura di piazza Fontana a Milano, suo marito Pino, ferroviere anarchico, precipitò da una finestra della questura e l'Italia scoprì che la democrazia era sotto attacco. Licia si era tenuta lontana dai riflettori concentrandosi in una tenace battaglia per ottenere giustizia dalla Giustizia. Non la ottenne.
New York: an Apple or a Beast?
On Dec. 7 the Italian Journalist and Photographer Michele Molinari presented his book Nella pancia della bestia (In the Belly of the Beast) at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. What is life like in NY? How did it change him? Why did he decide to go away? Find all the answers in this book, a disenchanted and often ironic recount of his experience in the Big Apple, where he lived for eight years before moving to Buenos Aires
Perugia celebrates Batman. String of events for Caped Crusader's 70th birthday
ANSA. Perugia. A five-day festival celebrating the 1939 creation of Batman got under way on Thursday with the opening of an exhibition devoted to American comic book characters. (Read the article)
Italian families hit hard by recession. One in three households struggle to make ends meet
ANSA. The global recession has taken a heavy toll on Italian families according to an annual survey released Friday by socioeconomic think-tank Censis. (Read the article)
Naples pizza set to get EU laurel. Long-awaited seal for 'real' Neapolitan product
ANSA. Seal Naples-style pizza is set to get a European Union quality seal protecting it from imitations.
Barring last-minute surprises, on Wednesday the EU's quality food board will award a long-sought TSG (Traditional Speciality Guaranteed) label to Naples' gift to the world (Read the article)
Barring last-minute surprises, on Wednesday the EU's quality food board will award a long-sought TSG (Traditional Speciality Guaranteed) label to Naples' gift to the world (Read the article)
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