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Where there’s love, there’s flavour – a prequel
Granita and brioche: the best way to start your day May 2012. I’m in Pasticceria Dulcissima, talking to Maurizio and Silvana, the owners. He’s in the airforce and speaks excellent English. The shop is...
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Bread and wine and broken bridges – a day in the Nebrodi
Greater than the sum of its parts We’re in a panificio in Cesarò, picking up supplies for lunch. It’s a family-run place which looks like a normal house from the outside – stone-built, low-roofed, farm...
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Acquarocca dei Zappini – a trek into the clouds
Etna’s trees, dressed in their best and showing off their full range of autumn colours Into the woods … … and over the bridge, trippety-trap A glow of sun from far above, and the damp,...
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Interview with an Unwilling Expat
This interview took place on camera and in Italian. Luckily for you, I’m a bit more coherent in written English … Months and months and *months* ago, I received an email from Rochelle of Unwilling...
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Getting residency in Catania – a story
8:30 in the morning and the ashtray’s already full “Good morning. I’m English, but I’d like to get Italian residency.” The man in the filthy, nicotine-stained office with the overflowing ashtray on his...
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Things my Sicilian boyfriend and I fight about
Well, all right, not fight about. But they definitely baffle us. Welcome to the heady world of the cross-cultural relationship. Item one: food Cornish pasties FTW! He’s Italian; I’m English. You may be...
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It takes a village
A gentleman is never without his pipe. Or e-cigarette, as the case may be Signor Crigio, who owns the men’s tailoring shop that used to be at the bottom of the building, is tiny, dapper and slim, with...
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On weddings and (too much) wine
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that it’s been a bit quiet around here recently. There’s a reason for that – Davide and I got married on 20 August! It’s therefore been a busy few months, but...
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Five Minutes
I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with C … December sun warming bare skin. Pigeons roosting in holes in the wall, nibbling their feathers and bobbing their heads. The gentle, constant...
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The sweet, the savoury, and the sneaky hidden trifle
Post coming very soon – in the meantime, why not check out the offerings from the other ladies of the Italy Roundtable? The Italy Roundtable is a group of likeminded women writing about different...
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