by Lina Malafronte
When the roads are going to be busy again, when it starts to get dark earlier, when you see new shows debut and your favourite series return on tv, when the air gets crisper, and, especially, when, at six in the morning, the alarm clock resumes its annoying trill to remember that it is time...
By Lidia Merola
On Piennolo Cherry Tomato of Vesuvius people wrote, and still write, a lot, especially since it has obtained the EU’s Protected Designation of Origin status
by Enzo Coccia
Until some time ago, the Italians before going on holiday chose wisely the activities that would have done during the days at sea. So, while the women opted for Harmony-style deep and heartbreaking love stories, the men, in cahoots with their neighbors, were busy with the completion of horizontal and vertical lines. The happy endings and the ladies’ books on one hand, Bartezzaghi or Brighenti’s crosswords and the rebus on the other lightened the load and gladdened the beach life, while having a look hither and thither at the sportsman or at the beautiful foreign girl and sipping a drink.
If creams, sunglasses and swimsuits went straight in the suitcase with the books and the puzzles magazine, with the arrival of smartphones and tablets the read and the game went behind a touch screen. The relaxation on the beach chairs was then catapulted into the virtual reality so as to incite our beautiful coast beaches to provide with wi-fi allowing the vacationers to stay, even on the shore, connected to Internet.
by Enzo Coccia
Hot summer days call for ice cream and La Notizia got ready for offering to its customers a more summer way to end the meal. Actually, to be honest, when the dessert at issue is the creamery Gabriele’s spumoni you don’t need to have a look at the calendar.
Soft inside, solid outside. This is how the domed shaped cold goodness is. Satisfying everyone’s tastes, chocolate, strawberry, coffee, hazelnut or pistachio cover candied fruit, nuts and chocolate chips in the fluffy mousse that gives the name to the semifreddo conceived by the creativity of Monzù in the aristocrat’s kitchens.
by Lina Malafronte
Summer rhymes with sea for the Italians and it could not be otherwise in a country that is surrounded by the blue salty water on all three sides. By the sea, in fact, especially by one, and its catch was inspired Enzo Coccia who chose the fresh anchovies for its Pizza Mediterranea.
Genuine crossroads of flavors, like the...
by Lina Malafronte
The English say "God Save The Queen," let me say "God Save Nutella." The unique, inimitable, irreplaceable sugary “star” blew out her first 50 candles and she did it organizing a range of events around the world, as worldwide is her fame.
It was 1964: while the 45 rpm record played the top singles, the young lovers, riding...
By Antonio Errico
Let's face it: the pizza deals with the tuxedo as the beer deals with the bow tie. Pizza and beer are perfect together, but it all depends on which pizza you eat and which beer you drink. There are the pizzas and there are the beers, this plural makes a big difference.
If about wine you can...
by Enzo Coccia
Monday evening, my day off, I try to get the most from it relaxing and spending time with my family. This time, seated on the sofa with my wife, I watched a movie from a few years ago.
The terminal,its title, for those who have never watched it, is inspired by the true, and very...
by Eduardo Ore
It has surely happen, at least once in your life, to see the Bay of Naples, even if only in postcards, with Vesuvius in the background to master. Between the visible lava flow from last eruption in 1944 and Mount Somma that gave birth to the volcano, about 16 km as the crow flies from the crater,...
By Enzo Coccia
Do you remember the beautiful Sofia giving the voice “eat today and pay within eight days”? It was the Second World War and in the black and white sequences in front of the slum, on a counter, with tempting movements, the big-breasted pizzaiola covered in flour stretched the dough discs, which plunged into the cauldron of boiling...
