This Italian Life

• LIFE: Chiavari's Flower Fest 2 days ago CHIAVARI, Italy – Flower fair this weekend. The streets of old Chiavari resemble walkways to heaven. The heady fragrance emanating from the thousands of flowers and herbal plants on display was hard to resist, not that anyone was thinking about resisting. There is a part of the Italian...
• AUNTIE PASTA: Erbe della Riviera Ligure 5 days ago CHIAVARI, Italy – Walked into my favorite greengrocer the other day just in time to see the owner coming in with an armful of fresh marjoram. I had never seen such large stalks of marjoram in my life, they were at least two feet long, but then again my experience with growing marjoram is...
• LIFE: Table Talk 1 week ago Guest blogger Elisa Scarton Detti recalls her first encounter with an Italian food critic. Of course the food critic was only three years old and the encounter took place in a nursery school (which in Australia are called kindergartens), but here in Italy food critics are born, not made.
• AUNTIE PASTA: The Three P's - Peppers, Potatoes Pomodori 1 week ago CHIAVARI, Italy – The shiny red peppers and plump tomatoes in the market Saturday were irresistible, so I scooped them up, brought them home and made one of my favorite dishes, potatoes with peppers and tomatoes. With a grilled chicken breast, some crusty fresh baked bread and a little wine,...
• LIFE: In Black and White 2 weeks ago CHIAVARI, Italy – It was always the stones that fascinated me, those smooth, oval black and white stones used to create the beautiful pavement designs found in piazzas and gardens and in front of churches and other buildings here in Italy. Someone somewhere had culled those stones from the...

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