Tue, May 22, 2012

Italian Lessons Around the Web

 

10 Phrases You Shouldn’t Go to Italy Without

Posted 15 hours, 7 minutes ago

If you’re packing your suitcases and heading for Italy in the coming months, some practical phrases are sure to come in handy. And so I’m launching a series of posts on “Traveling in the Italian Language.” Let’s begin with some essential and quintessentially Italian conversation starters:

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Cooking Under the Tuscan Sun

Posted 1 month ago

Il ricettario de “Il sole della Toscana”

The Tuscan Sun Cookbook


Some people win you over with “hello”; some books, with an irresistible cover or title. Frances Mayes had me with one spell-binding sentence about the choreography of the kitchen (la coreografia della…

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Celebrating Carnevale in the Italian Language

Posted 3 months ago

Carnevale
Carnival

Thanks to my Catholic childhood, I could easily follow the Sunday mass in the tiny stone church of the Borgo Monte Vibiano Vecchio in Umbria.  Then the white-haired priest began to preach in ever more impassioned tones about the evils of “i peccati della carne,” which…

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