Winter is coming. Arm yourselves against Emilia’s arsenal of food.
Our cohort of expat bloggers in Italy (#COSI) has bitten off about as much as it can chew this time: Italian regional food wars.
The Gingerbread Crimes
Beer + Christmas Season + Crazy Italian Ladies = This.
How you know you’re in Emilia, Italy… even from inside an IKEA.
Somewhere in Sweden there’s a well designed room of blonde people eating meatballs and discussing how to best debilitate various consumer groups into subjection. I am here to report that they have yet to conquer the Italians!
La Casa di Sand and Fog, Emilia edition… (less sand and more fog).
This is the Hollywood-like (only not really) dramatic retelling of our persistent loathing of the vista from our balcony: ‘La Casa di Sand and Fog’.
If you’re going to live in Emilia, you need to know what “sisso” is.
What is sisso? Some would say it’s like gold. It’s the fuel of the regional agricultural industry. It’s the byproduct of the rich food culture of traditional Emilia. It’s a farmer’s most essential source of nourishment. It’s the smell that fills the air at dinner time in the summer. It’s the taste that lingers in your mouth after exhaling.
It’s pig poo.
