Italiano
The Xitomatl
The history of the tomato is somehow fascinating.
Do you know that it was among the first artificially selected fruits? It is native...
18
Nov
cateringequipment
20
May
Caciocavallo of the emigrant
By the early 20th century, immigration had become a mass phenomenon in the United States.
Facing hordes of desperate people from Eur...
25
Jan
The sound of the word “induction”
If there was one thing Michael Faraday couldn't stand, this was cacophony.
The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-soun...
22
Jan
King Lasagna
Francis II of Bourbon was the last Monarch of the "Kingdom of the Two Siciles", the Reign located in the South of Italy, whose army and...
21
Jan
Drinking out loud
Not long ago, two researchers of the University of Bretagne/Sud (France) published a research paper showing the results of their experi...
20
Jan
The Pending Coffee
Did you know 10th of december is the "Caffé sospeso" International day?
Unless if you're not from that part of the world, it's unlikel...
18
Dec
The Spaghetti Tree
On April Fool's Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland), showing ...
15
Dec
Schiller’s inspiration
Friedrich Schiller was an amazing man of culture of the German Enlightenment age.
His intellectual production was huge, consistent a...
04
Dec
Borgia’s tagliatelle
Among all the characters of the Italian Renaissance, no one has been subject of so many rumours like Lucrezia Borgia.
Illegitimate d...
03
Dec
Spaghetti is not food for fighters
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the founder of futurism, an artistic and political movement born in the years between the world wars in I...
