Carasau bread is a local Sardinian bread, which was born in Barbagia in ancient times because shepherds needed to have a bread that lasted longer, without going bad during their movement with the flocks.
The traditional carasau has the shape of thin and crisp circular sheets of pastry and, because of its features, it also goes […]

Polenta is an old food, bound up with human evolution. Since prehistory man has fed on coarsely ground cereals, which were cooked in boiling water.
In the Roman period polenta was called pultem: it was made with emmer, which, ground and cooked, went well with meats and cheeses. Only when Columbus discovered America, the marriage between […]

St. Valentine’s Day has very ancient origins, which perhaps aren’t known by everybody. Everything began in the ancient Rome in February, which was considered propitious to the preparation for the coming of spring, so to the rebirth.
Among the Romans the rites of purification began in this month. They cleaned their houses, sprinkled salt and some […]

We’d like to bring to your attention an interesting, in our opinion, blog in English: ‘Studying Italian Abroad – Evaluation of Schools teaching Italian in Italy’, created by Reynold Harrs.
Harrs is a 67 years old former teacher (with 10 years of experience teaching at different universities in North America), who decided to learn Italian 11 […]