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Learn Italian: how to make risotto with the best rice

17 April, 2020

How do you go about choosing the best rice for your risotto? If you’ve ever been to an Italian supermarket, you will have seen, and most likely been confused by, the great variety of Italian rice at hand.And one golden…

Learn Italian: carpaccio – the dish, not the painter

12 April, 2020

If you don’t like raw meat, we suggest you avoid the word “carpaccio” on Italian menus. The original recipe is said to come from either Veneto or Piedmont, depending on which historian you speak to.The story from Veneto goes that…

Learning Italian from Mozart: "Così fan tutte" translated "all women are like that"

30 March, 2020

Recently we spoke about Geri Halliwell’s and Fabrizio Politi’s split, and I mentioned the phrase “Così fan tutte“. The words are the title of Mozart’s famous opera set in Venice, which takes up the theme of “fiancée swapping”.In a complicated…

Italian men: expressions "mammone" and "La mammasantissima"

18 March, 2020

The figure of the mother in Italy is almost a religion, venerated to the point where a man, as long as he has a mother in his life, has no need of other women. A “mammone” in Italy is a…