Carnival of Venice
The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held every year in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Tuesday or Mardi… Read More
Hearts of semolina
Cookies of crisp pastry durum wheat semolina with a delicate touch of vanilla and hazelnut cream. 350 grams of durum wheat flour 125 grams of butter 120 grams of powdered sugar 2 vanilla 1 egg 2 egg yolk… Read More
Leonardo’s Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci has painted the Last Supper in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the behest of Ludovico il Moro, in a span of time ranging from 1494 to 1497. In 1999,… Read More
Carnival sweet fritters
Chiacchiere are sweet fritters made in Italy for Carnival time. They are known with different names in our regions: Chiacchiere in Lombardy, Cenci in Tuscany, Frappe in Emilia, Bugie in Genoa, Crostoli in Trentino. Here you can read the directions… Read More
Cooked salami
The cooked salami is a mixture sausage of pork and fat, following a traditional Piedmont’s recipe. Real delicacy, it’s rarely found in the rest of Italy and is completely unknown abroad. Cylindrical in shape, the size is not always the… Read More
Small house?
How to organize small spaces to make them look bigger. A small house is always resourceful! When space is limited, the organization is all, but some little tricks on how to furnish it are enough to have a house… Read More
