Italy sets Example by its Treatment of Celiac Disease
Imagine being told to avoid delicious pies, pasta and biscuits – in fact, to avoid any foods containing gluten. This is what happened to Lucy Shriver, who runs the website The Gluten Free Kitchen. She explained that: “After years of feeling tired and suffering from migraines and joint pain, I finally found a physician who [...]
Italy Out Of Hand: A Capricious Tour By Barbara Hodgson
Barbara Hodgson, follow-up on the 1995 classic Paris Out Of Hand on which she collaborated, with this wonderfully quirky companion volume Italy Out Of Hand. Unlike the Paris version, which was a tour of a mystical, magical Paris that doesn’t really exist, this guide is very real. Because after all, truth is stranger than fiction! [...]
John Paul Jones: Father of the Modern Navy
The boy born John Paul on July 6, 1747 in Arbigland, Scotland went to sea when he was 12, leaving his father’s life as a gardener behind him. He traveled on many ships, learning as he went, until he received his own command, the brig John, at the age of 21. He eschewed one of [...]
Average Jonah
Why is this “fish story” significant? Every Sunday school child and most secularists are familiar with the story of Jonah and the whale. But what do they really know about the story, other than the fact that it sounds like a fairy-tale? Why did this two page tome wind up as part of the Old [...]
Heidegger’s Parmenides
Heidegger begins pages 43-102 of Parmenides by continuing with his lecture on the essence of pseudos. He claims that there is much more to the oppositional nature of aletheia than a mere positive and negative relationship. Rather, both truth and falsity must be thought of in terms of a reciprocity with one another. He reiterates [...]
It’s In The Little Things…
It’s true. Relationships are in the details. When we think of successful relationships, we tend to think of weddings, big extravagant holidays, weekends away to Paris, diamond rings, huge bouquets of flowers… And the list goes on. But that’s not where relationships are lived on a day to day basis. And yet that’s where they [...]
A-Z of Common Italian Cooking Terms
Cooking Italian food in your own kitchen can be healthy and fun – but sometimes you may come across terms in the recipes that you don’t understand. Here is a quick glossary to help you cook Italian with the best of them! Aceto: Vinegar, from the Latin for acid. Affugato: Meat, fish or dishes that [...]
Italian Baroque Composers: Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti was born on October 26th, 1685 in the southwestern coastal city of Naples, Italy. His father was the accomplished and much respected composer Alessandro Scarlatti, a maestro di capella. It was evident early on that young Domenico inherited his father’s talent and capacity for music. Seventeenth century Naples was a city in full [...]