Christmas in Italy: where to go
Secret spots for your Italian Christmas days!
What you need to know about your first time at an Italian Sagra
Eat up the culture at Toronto’s first Italian Sagra festival! This month Toronto will host its very first Italian Sagra and it promises to be a most exciting event, full of culinary and socio-cultural wonders. What’s a Sagra? Sagra entails family, friends, traditions and good food. In brief, a sagra is a rural festival held … Continued
Easter Dove ~ La colomba di Pasqua
Known in North America as Easter Panettone, the “colomba di Pasqua” – literally, the Easter dove – is a typical Italian cake eaten at this time of the year, as Italians celebrate Easter, feasting on chocolate eggs and bunnies along the way. The name of the modern “colomba di Pasqua” refer to the commercial idea the … Continued
Carnival temptations
In Italy we have sweets and cakes for every occasion. Whether we have to honor a patron saint or the remembrance of an olden battle, we have plenty of greedy treats to celebrate it properly. The Carnevale is one of those festivities and everything must be rigorously fried. So forget your diet and guilt, and … Continued
Venezia e Milano: due Carnevali diversi
*Articolo tratto da scuolazoo.com E’ tempo di Carnevale: ma quanti ‘carnevali’ esistono in Italia? Moltissimi. Scopriamo le novità del Carnevale a Venezia e a Milano. Il Carnevale di Venezia è sicuramente una delle ricorrenze italiane più famose al mondo grazie ai numerosi eventi organizzati ogni anno, dal volo dell’angelo in Piazza San Marco al ballo in maschera. Tra … Continued