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Cooking Sicilian
The food from the island of Sicily is in my view is one of the best. It varies  a lot like in any other region in Italy, depending on the vicinity to the sea, inland, mountain and so on. What’s better than pasta alla norma to start with or friselle, a [...]

In my last newsletter I mentioned meat tortellini which my family have been making for quite a while. It all started when my grandfather known to be a big eater , married a great cook, a woman coming from the eastern province of Verona.
My grandfather (from mom’s side), whose father was from a town near [...]

Luisa’s got a new kitchen!
Last October a renewal has started at Luisa’s estate. The main work has been done at ground floor; there is now a large brand  new kitchen where there was once a studio and in the studio there is a livingroom-diningroom. The fireplace (sic…) has been replaced by a wood burner, but [...]

(source: Poynter Online)
Two weeks away from work. I fear that for too many of today’s newsroom managers, that kind of getaway is more likely to be related to hospitalization than to vacation. Even for those of us who teach journalists at Poynter, a two-week holiday is a blessing.
I was blessed in May. As my oldest son Noah [...]