So you think you know Italy…and then you go to the Alto-Adige. We had been sitting by the river in Verona, preparing to return to Bologna and paging idly through the Let’s Go guide. One of us noted that the description of Bolzano looked lovely. Then we noted that it was only an hour or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
bitte?
Posted in descriptive, humorous, summer, year 1, tagged Alto-Adige, Bolzano, food, trips on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
too much food and more separation anxiety
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged food, friends, goodbyes on Sunday 20 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been an exhausting couple of days lately–also a filling couple of days, for some reason I found myself repeatedly in restaurants eating far too much food. Julia’s leaving was pretty devastating, as you can read below, but I was distracted from brooding over it by being nervous about going to dinner with Riccardo that [...]
si mangia bene
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, website on Monday 12 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember back when I said that I wanted to make a separate blog in which we would post a monthly recipe that worked well for us? Well, I’ve finally done it, but not on a monthly basis, just whenever I remember. There are only three recipes there now, but there will be more later. http://simangiabene-acm.blogspot.com
the gist
Posted in descriptive, regular, winter, year 1, tagged big decision, Bologna, Campania, food, friends, Herculaneum, Mom, Napoli, New Year's, parties, pasta, snow, trips, visits on Monday 28 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my English classes we do this thing called “reading for gist,” which is where you’re not supposed to read every word for detail but instead read the entire article quickly to get a sense of the thing. (Incidentally, my students hate this.) This is going to be “gist writing,” because I have exactly 20 [...]
Natalie and Venezia
Posted in descriptive, winter, year 1, tagged food, friends, trips, Veneto, Venice, visits on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So as I mentioned before, one of the reasons we stayed in Italy for Christmas was because Emily’s and my good friend Natalie was coming to visit us on the 26th! She was to fly into Venice and spend a couple days there with us before coming down to spend the rest of her visit [...]
Natale a Bologna
Posted in regular, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, food, friends, joy, Santa Claus on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Still trying to catch up on the backlog of events. So here’s Christmas, apart from the duck. When we initially decided to all spend Christmas here in Bologna, we were a little sad, thinking Christmas couldn’t possibly be the same away from home. So we decided to take steps–we bought a Christmas tree (a real [...]
the great duck epic
Posted in humorous, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged carnage, Christmas, duck, food on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now I should talk about Christmas at the Via Varthema 21 household, but one part of the Christmas story deserves an entire entry to itself. Namely, the dinner. And not the mashed potatoes or salad part. Julia and I don’t often eat meat at home, partially because it’s expensive and partially because Emily is a [...]
Slovenija!
Posted in descriptive, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, cold, food, Ljubljana, roommates, Slovenia, snow, students, TEFL, trips, work on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a lot to catch up on in these past few frenetic weeks, beginning with our weekend trip to Slovenia! Julia and I finished work on Thursday the 20th. The last week of teaching was nice–most of my classes had tests, and instead of normal lessons I had them do Christmas-themed word finds, [...]
festa di ringraziamento
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged food, friends, holiday, roommates, students, teaching children, Thanksgiving on Sunday 25 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Despite what you might have expected, we DID celebrate Thanksgiving despite being in Italy, and in fact it was probably the best Thanksgiving I’ve celebrated since I stopped going home (except maybe for that Russian House dinner). Preparation began a week in advance–Julia and I made at least three trips to the markets in the [...]
