Archive for December, 2006

The legend of the Christmas tree

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

We are getting close to Christmas and we are going to better understand the symbology of the Christmas Tree, which, at this moment, is in our houses and in our towns.
We realised there are a lot of stories about the origin of the Christmas Tree: some of them send us back to the Celtic Druids […]

Emilia Romagna conquests American TV audiences

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

In January 2007 we’ll be able to see our Emilia Romagna as the protagonist of an American program hosted by Todd English, chef-entrepreneur and undisputed guru of American housewives (his program on Pbs network reaches 90 million TV audiences).
Some traditional dishes of Emilia and Romagna will be laid bare in an episode of the program […]

The ‘Strozzapreti’: the story of a kind of pasta from Romagna

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Strozzapreti (flour dumplings) are a kind of pasta from Romagna, simple but very good, whose name is decidedly original. But why was such a tasty dish named ‘Strozza-preti’ (Priest-Chokers)?
According to the story, this name is due to the historical anticlericalism created in Romagna between the oppressed people and the Papal State, since the middle of […]