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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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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…
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…