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Restoration of the Blue Cave in P i zz o Calabria La Grotta Azzurra di Pizzo, this is one of the most important of the caves that are along the coast of Pizzo, will soon Find your 10 day be 'back to the weather forcast community'. for Calabria on T h e v i s io n o f t h e ci ti z e ns a n d m a n y t o u r is ts ali k e . our website The coffers of the town, in fact, soon to be accredited by the Calabria region, one million four hundred thousand euros, devoted to thework of recovery of the cave. The mayor of Pizzo, Fernando Nicotra, in recent days, has signed a convention with the C alabri a re g i o n to o bt ai n the m o n e y. Satisfied with the important result, the president of the council, by delegation of public works and regional planning and theerritorial t government, Michelangelo Tripodi, for the contribution that will allow us' to recover an asset of great histor ical, artistic and tourism for our community: the Blue Grotto. This is a project that the commissioner was kind enough to financ e.'' The redevelopment of the Blue Grotto'' - adds Stillitani - and 'one of the points on a program that is shaping our actions to thegovernment for the rehabilitation of some characteristic places of our territory.'' This is funding that is additional to those thatthe administration has already 'made, and are related in particular to the restoration of places in the historic parts of Pizzo. Welcome to the third edition of the all new Calabrian Voice English spea king newspaper. We hope you enjoy and remember to click online and bookmark today at www.cal abrianvoice.com.
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Catanzaro, Italy: 4 Must See Churches
Welcome to February. What does this month have install for us? For me, it's the month to start dieting and that new exercise DVD I got for Christmas can come out of the wrapper. It seem also from the view out of my window here in fisherman's bay that Pizzo will soon have the famous Blue Grotto re opening, work has started and anyone who knows the area and has heard the stories will be very happy to know that the money is coming straight from the big boys in government so there is more chance of it reaching here. This time. Buon Anno
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Catanzaro is the capital of the Calabria region in southern Italy at the tip or toe of the boot and it is surrounded by the Ionian Sea on the east side and by the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west part. Catanzaro has a popula tion of about ninety six thousand and it is also known as the city of the two Seas, and it is also known as the city of the three V's which stand for San Vitaliano the patron saint, velvet which has been important center since the Byzantines times and ven to (which is the word wind in Italian) because of the constant strong winds coming from the Ionian Sea.
Well the cold weather has started and now we are hitting all time lows of 8 d egrees. You may laugh if you are from the UK or Eire but for me this is COLD. After nearly 20 years living in the med I have come to expect more from my wi nters so this year has been a boost. Great weather, little rain, sun and yes I do go on the terrace and enjoy the sun or eat a ge lato on the Pizza when time permits. There is always time as that’s the life here. There are some great things happening at the moment on the web with the Google earth app to let you see into the towns here in real imagery. See our online maps at at websi te now www.calabrianvoice.com Have fun all Paul
The pressure on the Euro has become immense since Greece was downgraded and the Eurozone refused to step in to help. Traders fear a Lehman Brothers type scenario where Greece defaults on its debt and Portugal, Spain and Ireland are forced to follow suit as the carpet is pulled beneath them. A report in the telegraph over the weekend suggest the European Central Bank (ECB) are prepa ring legal ground in the event a Euro member tried to leave the Eurozone breaks up following the Greek crisis. The fact that EUR USD has fallen over 7.0% since December will not worry the ECB one little bit. They have been attempting to talk the euro down f or most of last year to help their exporters pull the Eurozone from recession. The pound on the other hand has had a great weeke nd. December CPI inflation data released Monday was 2.9%, much higher than the Bank of England 2.0% target and very close to the number which requires BoE Governor Mervyn King to write a letter of explanation to Chancellor Alistair Darling. This was the la rgest one -month rise since April 1991. The next number to surprise to the upside was UK December unemployment which fell by 15.2k, the second co nsecutive monthly decline. Euro buyers have therefore been presented with the best levels to buy in 4 -months after a 4.5% bounce since last week. EUR buyers €1.15 marks the last Fibonacci retracement level as well as the top of the 4.5 cent trading channel which has co ntained GBPEUR since November. Buyers are therefore higher recommended to buy at least some of their requir ement at €1.15 if you can still catch it on this move. Be careful however because the steep incline from €1.10 levels last week could correct lower just as fast. “The Bull walks up the stairs, the BEAR falls out the window.” EUR sellers We recommend placin g a stop loss order above the top of the trading channel at €1.16 in case we break higher and race up to €1.18 levels. On the do wnside we recommend targeting no lower than the 200 -day moving average at €1.1300.
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According to the Italia n Wikipedia (http://it. wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanzaro), there are four churches that you must visit besides the wo nderful beaches, which are pretty crowded du ring the summer but still beautiful for the rest of the year as well but always enjoyable to be on. One of the churches is the Du omo which was built in 1121 during the Norman times and dedicated to Maria Assunta and the apostles Peter and Paul, but in the 16th century the church was remodeled with more of a s Renai ssance tyle front but unfortunately that went down during an earthquake in 1638 and still suffered damages during World War II. T he Duomo is one of the main churches of the city so it is definitely a must see. Another church is the Rosary, which has a f açade from the Renaissance period and the buil ding, according to the Italian Wikipedia (http://it. wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanzaro) was built around the end of the fifteenth century or at the begi nning of the sixteenth century. This church also has had earthquake damages and from 1832 to 1891 it remained closed but then re -opened and now it is viewable to the public. Santa Maria del Carmine is another great church to visit, and it was originally bu ilt in the sixteenth century and the façade of the church has been amended in the mid twentieth century, and it used to be an an nex of the Carmelite monastery during the seventeenth century.
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Thank you for visiting the 4th issue of the Calabrian Voice. After 18 months of being editor and creator of the Vibo Voice and Pi zzo Express English language newspaper we have now moved on and launched the all new Calabrian Voice En glish language newspaper. We have also launched online this month and you can find us at
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More than 6,000 people attended the £600 -a-week courses offered by the Gelato University in Bologna in 2008 but enrolments nearly do ubled last year. Students come from all over the world, with budding gelato maestros attending from Australia, China, Sudan, Leba non and Britain. They have one dream in common: to learn how to make the world's best ice cream in the institute's high -tech laboratories and then use their new-found expertise to open gelaterie back home, from Beirut to Brighton. As well as learning how to concoct familiar flavours such as choc olate and vanilla, students experiment with more outlandish tastes, including gelato made from red wine, olive oil, Parmesan chee se and basil. "In China they have experimented with fish -flavoured gelato," said Patrick Hopkins, the American director of the u niversity, which was established in 2003. "Gelato is a platform for flavours – you can adapt it to whatever cu lture you're in. Pear with Parmesan and lemon with basil are some of the more unusual ones our students have come up with." The university is an off-shoot of Carpigiani, an Italian company that manufactures about 70 per cent of the world's gelato -making machines. "We've had a 89 per cent increase in enrolments. We're getting more and more people who have been hit by the economic cr isis and want to create a new future for themselves," said Mr Hopkins. "A lot of them are senior businesspeople who have lost th eir jobs. Outside Italy it's not as though there's a gelateria on every corner. People taste Italian gelato and think to themsel ves 'why don't we have this at home'?" The university runs six courses, from beginner to advanced, in which students are taught that making gelato is much a science as an art. Producing the perfect gelato is a delicate balancing act between the two key elements – the fat found in milk and cream, which hardens as it freezes, and the sugar in fruit and chocolate, which does the opp osite. The size of the ice crystals in gelato is also crucial – the tinier the crystals, the smoother the gelato tastes. "Ideally ice crystals should be about the size of a micron. That way your tongue doesn't feel them and you are left with a smooth, cream y sensation," said Mr Hopkins. One of the students recently on the course was Seb Cole, 30, from London, who until recently work ed in printing but hopes to open his own gelateria in Brighton this summer. "I wanted my own business and I'd been looking for a n opportunity for the last five years," he said. "Gelato is lower in fat than the ice cream you get in the UK and there's a lot more scope with flavours. I want to give it a bit of a British twist – we're going to try gelato fl a-
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE
When Ryanair, in its wisdom, cancelled direct flight from the UK to Lamezia Terme we had no choice but to book an indirect flight via Milan (Bergamo) which involved a lengthy 7 hour wait in Bergamo. Naturally we were disappointed and not relishing the many hours waiting for the linking flight. How wrong we were.
It took a major earthquake to wake up the international co mmunity to what has been happening in Haiti for the past two hundred years and longer. It is not sufficient to keep repea ting ‘Haiti is the poorest country in the western world’ wit hout looking at the politics that have kept them poor and d oing something to restore their democratic rights by making them the subjects and not the objects of their history.
The views from the plane as you come in to land are fantastic, I would recommend sitting on the right hand side, where you can see the mountains and lakes. Bergamo itself is lovel y, especially the old town town, called Citta Alta. Put your luggage into Left Luggage at €4 per item. The check in window is on your right as you exit Arrivals but first you have to take your bags to Security to get them X -rayed. Not a problem, there is a frosted glass door immed iately to the left of Arrivals, ring the bell and a sticker will be placed on your bags. Right next to Left Lu ggage you can buy tickets for the bus into Bergamo which for €2.50 also gives you access to the Funic ular Railway up to the old town. Free leaflets and maps are available at Tourist Information in the ai rport.
Haiti is about one third of the size of Ireland with a popul ation of seven million. It is about sixty miles from Cuba and a two-hour flight from Miami. Five hundred years ago it was the ‘Jewel of the Caribbean’ inhabited by Carob Indians. Christopher Columbus arrived there and was graciously received. He returned as an invader and enslaved the popul ation. His invaders brought in diseases and fevers that dec imated the indigenous people. As a result slaves were brought there from Africa to work the sugar cane plantations. Not only did the Spanish invade Haiti but the French, the English and eventually the Americans.
The views are spectacular and the old town is very pretty with Piazza Vecchia being rated one of the best in Europe. The re are narrow medieval alleyways with cobbled streets, lots of shops and places to eat, the most popular of which was a bakery, always crowded, selling slices of pizza. The Cathedral (Duomo) and Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore are spectacular inside, well wo rth a look, and while we were there it was the funeral of a local church dignitary so there were more Cardinals and nuns than you could shake a stick at. We were there just after New Year, and I have to warn you that it was freezing cold up there, with everyone wrapped in scarves, gloves and thickly padded jacket, I swear it was 10 degrees colder than at the airport. Also, many of the museums were closed, which was apity because some of them look very interesting on paper.If you don’t fancy walking far and you are a shopaholic, there is a massive shopping centre just across the road from the airport about a 5 minute walk. I have to say that but for Ryanair we would have never discovered Bergamo which would have been a shame because it deserves to be more than an inco nvenient stop-over. It’s true what they say, every cloud has a silver lining. By Ray Heywood
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In 1804, the black slaves freed themselves . They were the first black slaves to do so. Their struggle for dignity and freedom continues to this day. The legacy of slavery and the colonial mentality remained widespread among their polit ical masters and powerful neighbours. It took until 1990 to have their first democratically elected President. For the previous t hree decades the bloody rule and dictatorship of Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier and his son Jean Claude ‘Baby Doc’ was supported b y the American Government. The military coup of 1991, which ousted the democratically elected President was organised by the ric h elite, a corrupt chief of police and hardline Duvalierist, plus a former Mayor of the Dominican Republic. One per cent of the population control half of the wealth. The elite did everything in their power to protect the system of exploitation and keep t he masses at bay. When President Aristide was elected for the second time in 2000 American aid was cut off. Foreign and elite r esistance culminated in second coup against him in 2004. My prayer is that he will return soon and serve his people unhindered. Breda Power LCM
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Italy trying to clamp down on Internet videos An Italian decree that would require the vetting of videos with sexual or violent content could take effect as soon as February 4, according to reports. The government decree, which affects sites such as Goo gle's YouTube, would also require sites that regularly upload videos to obtain a license to operate in Italy, the Associated Press reported Friday. Companies and organizations, including Google, telecommunications providers, and press watchdog groups, are seeking changes in the proposed decree. They assert that it would hurt freedom of expression and be extremely difficult to enforce and mon itor. The draft decree "poses yet another threat to freedom of expression in Italy," Reporters Without Borders said in a stat ement this week.
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Marco Pancini, Eur opean senior policy counsel of Google Italia who testified this week before an Italian parliamentary co mmittee, said Friday that he expects that the pr oposal will undergo changes and be d elayed. "We are concerned over the fact that [companies], like YouTube, that simply make content available to the general public , are being bundled together with traditional television networks that actually manage content," Pancini told the newspaper La Stampa, according to Time. "It amounts to destroying the entire Internet system."
Valentines day in Italy Romantic Festival of Valentine's Day is celebrated with enthusiasm in the beautiful country of Italy. Lo vers take opportunity of the day to express love and affection for their beloved. Loads of Valentine's Day gifts are exchanged a nd everyone enjoys the day to the hilt. History of Valentine's Day in Italy Valentine's Day was initially celebrated as a Spring Festival in Italy. Celebration for the day was held in the open air. Young people would gather in tree arbors or orn amental gardens and enjoy listening to music and reading of poetry. Later they would stroll off with their Valentine into the garden s. The custom steadily ceased over the course of years and has not been celebrated for centuries. Early Valentine's Day Tradit ion in Italy In the Italian City of Turin, betrothed couple used to announce their engagement on the Valentine's Day. Several da ys ahead of February 14, stores were decorated and loaded with a huge variety of bon -bon. Some even sold china baskets and cups filled with delectable Valentine's Day candies and tied with a ribbon. These were to be presented as gifts to Valentine. Another interesting Valentine's Day tradition followed in Italy and Britain made unmarried girls to wake up before sunrise. People str ongly believed that the first man an unmarried girl sees on Valentine's Day, or someone who looks like him would marry her withi n a year. Girls therefore used to wake up early on Valentine's Day and stand by their window to watch a man pass. Valentine's Day Celebration in Italy People of Italy see Valentine's Day as a holiday imported from US, just like Halloween and Mother's Day. For the love and lovers country of Italy, the major day for celebration of love is il giorno della festa degli innamorati.As lovers' exclusively celebrate this day family members and friends do not exchange gifts. In recent times however, lovers in It aly celebrate Valentine's Day by expressing their love to sweethearts. Couples usually go out for dinners at pizzeria or ristora nte. Just as in several other countries, the festival has been commercialized to a great extent. There is a strong tradition to exchange gifts like rose, perfume, chocolates and diamonds depending on the age and taste of person. Another popular Valentine' s Day gift in Italy is Baci Perugina - a small, chocolate covered hazelnuts containing a small slip of paper with a romantic poetic quote in four la nguages.
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“Sono Pizzitano” or “Man of Pizzo” Ever wanted to buy a house in Italy? The author did and in this book he has written the story of his quest and its successful conclusion, along with all the disappointment, joy, frustration and excitement he experienced along the way. Firstly, he describes his motives and background and gives his initial impressions of Italy. The practicalities involved in buying there and his personal reactions and of those close to him are outlined. Read about the problems involved, the people he met and the situations he found himself in, as the search went on for the perfect place and an affordable house, which could meet his needs and those of his family but which also ticked the boxes of his fantasy. In trying out a different lifestyle, at a new stage of his life, he discovers a way to live the dream and banish the doldrums, while having the odd nightmare. His wife and family also experience the search and have to deal with the consequences before enjoying the final result, a house in sunny Italy by the sea, in a “centro storico” among the lively, local Italians of Pizzo. With special thank to Michael Power who wrote Sono Pizzitano and with his permission we will be publishing parts of the book ry eve month here in The Calabrian Voice. Visit the website and purchase yourself a copy www.sonopizzitano.weebly.com at or Michaelis currently in Pizzo till the end of June so you can get yourself a signed copy from the master himself or call him direct is onItalian h number 00 39 327089 9722
CHAPTER 2 “OUR BACKGROUND AND INTEREST IN ITALY” My wife and I had been to Italy many times by 2008 and the idea of buying th ere had been mooted and discussed. There had been false starts and mishaps, rows and thrills but we had become enchanted with it and kept dreaming.
Once, I had even announced to my colleagues at work that I would not be r eturning in September as I hoped to move to Italy to teach English. That had not worked out quite as well as I thought. But let m e go back further and explain a little about us and our life together. We were married in 1973. I was a primary school teacher a nd Donna was a secretary in a building firm at the time. We did manage to buy a house after a spell living in a flat in Rathgar (next door to where Jack Lynch, a former Ta oiseach, or Prime Minister of Ireland, lived). Donna gave up work to stay at home and have and mind our children so we had to man age on one salary, as was quite normal at the time but an arrangement which seemed to change for others soon afterwards. Our family amounted to five children, Dermot, Be rnard, Mark, Frances and Anna, after 12 years during which we were just ge tting by mostly. Money was scarce and continued to be, right into the nineties. With all our children starting school and some quite grown up, Donna went back to work, which made a difference to our standard of living but it was not until the year 2000 we managed to go on our first sun holiday. Before that it had been a week in Galway during race week when I would be working at my part-time job on the Tote (a semi -state company involved in betting on horse racing), or down to Waterford, where I had some co nnections as my family had originally come from there. They were alright as holidays for us, but nothing like our first sun holi day away, just us two, in Tunisia! The moment we got off that plane and felt the heat from the airport apron we were smitten and holidays would never be the same. I had been abroad before as a young teacher but had headed to northern Eur opean countries mostly, as I hitch -hiked, and it would have taken me too long to get south to Biarritz or anywhere on the Mediter ranean, much as I wanted to, and anyway money was too scarce then, in the absence of Ryanair especially, to fly there. I had bee n to Paris and its hinterland, Versailles, Chartres and on another holiday I had hitched up to Amsterdam, stopping off in Calais, Bru ssels, Ostend, and Utrecht, having been in London with some flat mates and taken the hovercraft from Dover. I had enjoyed all tho se trips, but on my own and yes, there had been adventures, such as when I lost my travellers cheques or had them stolen. I did manage to stay in Amsterdam for a few weeks extra by working for lodgings in the youth hostel. A funny incident ha ppened when I asked for work and they asked me how many languages I spoke. “Two, English and Irish” I replied, and the Dutch, tho se linguists of Europe fell around the place laughing. “Don’t think you will be working on reception then!” they spluttered. That stayed with me for some time so that now I try to learn some of the la nguage of the country to which I go. I worked in the dormitories and helped at breakfast time and got food and lodgings for my tr ouble and was very happy with that arrangement. There was a further embarrassment to come when my school principal’s daughters t urned up at the hostel and we got to know each other. It was fine really until I went back to school in September and he got thi s hippy teacher with a new beard and long hair who had met his daughters on holiday. It didn’t cause a huge problem though, not for me anyway. Donna was not a traveller when we met and hadn’t been much outside Dublin apart from a holiday in Birmingham, whe re she enjoyed herself with her cousin Angela, also over from Dublin, both of them staying with their Aunt Bridie. Angela was ta lkative and Donna was the quite one, at least that’s the way she tells it. They were free!
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Two young girls at the time, just learning to flirt and flaunt their power over the poor (or lucky) young fellows they met at the ice rink or elsewhere. It was a brief glimpse of freedom. Donna’s father had died when she was ten, just as mine had, when I wa s about the same age. She had to leave school at an early age or chose to, but went to night school, and she was working as a se cretary in a builder’s company when I met her. Life was tough enough as her mother also worked to bring in the money and Donna, the eldest, got a whole load of extra responsibilities, becoming almost a second parent, who cleaned and cooked and was a good, serious girl (Now she may be breaking out!). I had rel atives in Waterford to whom I was sent for holidays and loved it mostly. She had hardly moved outside Dublin and is still wary of country living, although we did live in County Meath for almost 17 years. Now she tells me she still has nightmares about it and still does sometimes but at the time it seemed fine and I didn’t know it got to her sometimes. (There is much more to this but that may be for another book) Having enjoyed Tunisia we decided to go back before Christmas that year with our two daughter s. It was different! It was not as hot amazingly, we found, to our surprise. Even the hotel could not compare with the one we ha d been in, in summer. In fact, Donna wanted to go home when she saw our room and cried for quite some time. The home bird in her got a shock and it took some time for her to recover. She did enquire about going home and was told it would be possible for ab out €2000! The hotel was not up to the standard of the other one and neither were the guests who mostly consisted of English pensioners getting away from winter in Britain. We all settled down after a while and made the best of it. The beach was hardly visited and the pool rarely used, e xcept for some mad Irish who jumped into much colder water than expected. The girls still managed to enjoy themselves, I think, b ut we were quite glad to get home. We did visit a market or two, the Medina and the girls got the treatment, being young, white, beautiful and glamorous, and we had to make a break for it before they were entirely overcome with unwelcome attentions. Like mother, like daug hters……..but this was not Birmingham!
That was not the first occasion Donna had wanted to leave a hotel and go home straight away. Once we booked a hotel in Virginia, County Cavan, in Ireland. When we got there, Donna took one look around the bedroom and demanded to be taken home. I agreed relu ctantly and back we came. We had dropped our sons with her mother for the weekend and now decided not to collect them, say nothi ng to anybody and we just spent the weekend enjoying ourselves at home and by going to the Phoenix Park races! Oh we were bad! T he granny was great and her sisters, the aunts, were too. We were lucky to be always able to get out with a reg ular supply of doting aunts, who often remind me of this and suggest payback. We figured it was pa yback for the time Donna had to parent them and take on much of the r esponsibility for the house and family. They may not quite see it like that. We did some babysitting for them with their children but not often, I’m afraid I have to admit. C’est la vie!
This is an exert from Sono Pizzitano by Michael Power who has moved to Pizzo in Calabria and tells his story. We will be having excerpts every month here at The Calabrian Voice. This is a great illustrated read for people who have or are thinking of bu ying a place abroad and a great read for those who just wish to escape and experience someone else's pain and pleasure.
With special thank to Michael Power who wrote Sono Pizz itano and with his permission we will be publishing parts of the book every month here in The Calabrian Voice. Visit the websiteand purchase yourself a copy at www.sonopizzitano.weebly.comor now available in book store in Pizzo
Italians 'slow to leave the nest' An ever-increasing number of Italians are living with their parents until well into their 30 s, a study says. The proportion of Italians aged between 30 and 34 still living at home has doubled to well over a quarter, a re cent government report concludes. Sons linger even longer than daughters, the government says, with 36.5% of men aged 30 to 34
remaining at home, compared to just 18.1% of women.
The new figures are part of an annual report by research centre Eurispes. The numbers seem to feed the idea of Italian sons so dependent on their mothers that they just cannot bear to leave the mater nal home, men who have become known as "mammoni" in Italy. Between 1990 and 2000 the rate of those aged between 30 and 34 still sharing the parental home rose from 14% to 27%, Eurispes says in its annual report. "That's the trend, there's no doubt that it would be the same for the last few years as well," Adele Menniti told the Associated Press news agency. A high level of unem ployment for graduates and soaring costs of living since the introduction of the euro are partly behind the trend, the report su
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"In Italy, one only leaves home when one gets married," Ms Menniti added. But even the number of marriages has fallen - with 257,880 couple tying the knot in 2003, less than half of the number in 1971. Younger siblings are also staying at home - with 90% of those aged between 20 and 24 years of age living at home by 2000, 10% more than in 1990.
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AQUARIUS January 21st- Feb 19th Valentines is around the corner so you must look for that perfect person in your life. Check o ut the sea and look out for that mermaid or man to wash you up on that sandy romantic shore.
LEO July 24th - August 23rd
SILLY-SCOPE ———————— For those who don't take it too seriously
Bolognese sauce like nonna used to make.....
If at first you don't succeed, des troy all evidence you tried.
Watch our for the Russian apple guarded by the ra mpaging lion. If you are able to avoid all these things in your life then we can assume you are on acid and better take a breathe r. True friends always stab you in the front.
PISCES Feb 20th - March 20th
VIRGO August 24th- Sept 23rd Have you ever had a phone call from a screw? Well if so ignore the screw and the phone call you a re back to the start, make the call but try for a friend as you may get better advice.
Here fishy fishy cries the fishe rman. If you know whats good for you why not tackle up and cast out for that perfect partner this February. When all else fails, read the directions.
Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
ARIES March 21st- April 20th Roger the horny Ram say hi, if you like Roger press 1, if you are a bloke press 2, if you are und ecided press for another choice. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids and a mortgage.
LIBRA Sept 24th - October 23rd
Serves 4
Need a break, look east, then west, glance North and South then say where you are and just go to a diffe r-
300g minced best beef 150g bacon
ent pub. Floggings will continue until morale improves.
50g yellow carrots 50g stick of celery
TAURUS April 21st - May 21st
30g onion
This Monday look out into yourself and see the inner light, no light, get yourself a bolt of good old AC and send yourself a wake up call.
5 tablespoons tomato sauce, or 20g tomato concentrate.
Conscience: What hurts when everything else feels so good.
Half glass dry w hite wine Cup of milk
SCORPIO October 24th- Nov 22nd if you have ever thought about singing in the rain, this Wednesday may be the day for you. It wi ll shine all day, rain all night and offer golden opportunity to be yourself, which may work so give it ago. An elephant is a mouse built to government specific ations.
A little stock GEMINI May 22nd - June 21st Looking left, watch out as it may come from the right. Watching your feet, careful not to get hit o n the head, anything else just go with your gut feeling, unless you have food poisoning.
Preparation: Chop bacon and fry gently with the chopped carrots, celery and onion. Add meat, wine and stock until they sizzle, then add tomato sauce and simmer for two hours, adding milk gradually during cooking, and season to taste.
SAGITTARIUS Nov 23rd - Dec 21st Stine in your tail, why not take a break, look out for number 2 instead for a change and see if the mighty Scorpio can be calmed by the passing of the wind. Dyslexics of the world untie!
As I said before, I never repeat myse lf.
CANCER June 22nd - July 23rd When you walk, down the road look out for that shiny piece of metal, could be money, could be a si lver bullet, either way you will be richer or werewolf proof. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a better defence.
CAPRICORN Dec 22nd—January 20th Hot Tuesday will prove itself to be the day of all days for you this month so smarten up, dress in the best and go for the gauntlet of fame. What if there were no hypothetical situations?
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How to write an Italian cheque Many people have contacted us with blind panik in their hearts as to how to write a cheque in It aly. Really it is not so complicated and if you follow the picture on the right you will see for yourself. The basic difference is where to put things, how to write in Italian nu mbers and what it all means.
any points that you do not understand. There is very little help out there for anyone not understanding the complexities of cheq ue writing and if you ask people tend to think we are strange but don't worry, just follow the description below an all should b e perfect. On the reverse of the cheque there is an area where the person you are paying can add their details to make sure it does not go astray. Happy cheque writing. See this on our website here
When completing an Italian cheque the most important areas are the amount in figures, the amount in numbers and who you are paying. The rest can really be completed by the person to whom you pass on the cheque. If you have doubts then it can be better to allow the person to whom you address the cheque to complete
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Calabria, Cucina di : Treasured Recipes and Family Traditions from Southern Italy by Mary Amabile Palmer Nearly 200 recipes offer something for every cook, whether novice or experienced. All start with simple, fresh ingredients, transformed into sumptuous d ishes with a minimum of effort. They are interwoven with anecdotes about Calabrian culture and history, traditions, festivals, f olklore, and of course, the primary role that food plays in all aspects of Italian life. Complete with b/w illustrations. For centuries, Calabrian food has remai ned relatively undiscovered because few recipes were divulged beyond tightl y knit vill ages or even family circles, but Mary Amabile Palmer has gathered a comprehe nsi ve collection of exciting, robust recipes from the home of her ance stors. Cucina di Calabria is a celebration of the cu isine she knows inti mately and loves, a cuisine that is more adve nturous and creative than that of most other parts of Italy. About the author(s)
Welcome to the all new Calabrian Voice English speaking newspaper food and drink page. Over the next months we will bring you stories, recipes and some great information about your favourite food and drink from the region. We are always looking for new stories and recipes so please contact us here or view our food and drink page at www.calabrianvoice.com
Mary Amabile Palmer is a freelance food writer, recipe developer, and restaurant consultant.She traveled extensivel y throughout Calabria while researchi ng this book. She lives i n Flori da, where she is co-social director of the Gulf Coast Itali an Cultural Society and a member of the Confrérie de la Chaî ne des Rôtisseurs. While living in the Boston area, she was the program chair of the Culinary Guild of New Engl and and a member of the Inter national Association of Culinary Professionals and the Culinary Historians of Boston.
Italy begins campaign to turn spag bol back into spaghetti bolognese. Italy began a campaign yesterday to defend the reputation of one of its most famous but most widely abused exports: pasta with bolognese sauce — otherwise known as spag bol. Coldiretti, the country’s farmers’ union, said that although people around the world believed they were eating spaghetti bolognese, what t hey were actually forking into their mouths were “improbable concoctions” of tomato paste from a jar with a “remarkable variety” of ingredients,
ranging from meatballs or turkey to mortadella. Yesterday, however, 440 chefs in Italian restaurants in 50 co untries, from Malaysia to Turkey and Saudi Arabia to China, made the authentic dish with the precise ingredients and cooking met hods laid down in a recipe patented by the Bologna Cha mber of Commerce in 1982. Food experts say that to be authentic, bolognese sauce should be served with the egg noodle pasta tagliatelle, rather than spaghetti, with the tagliatelle conforming to a 1972 recipe laying down that it must be precisely 8mm wide. Mario Caramella, the head chef at the Bali Hyatt Hotel in Indonesia and head of the Virtual Association of Italian Chefs ( GVCI), which organised the event, said: “If there is one dish in the Italian repertoire which is cooked worst than most, it is t raditional bolognese sauce.” Alfredo Tomaselli, the owner of Dal Bolognese, in the Piazza del Popolo, Rome, said: “It is true when they offer ragu alla bolognese on menus abroad the dish in question often has absolutely not ing to do with the original.”
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Alessandro Circiello, of the Italian Federation of Chefs, told Corriere della Sera newspaper: “It is always the great classic re cipes that are most ma ngled.” Too many cooks outside Italy tended to “throw a lot of cream and butter into dishes because they cover up hidden blemishe s”. Coldiretti has sought in the past to defend other “adulterated” Italian recipes, including Neapolitan pizza, pasta al pesto — a Genoese special ity, cotoletta alla Mila nese and the ubiquitous Italian dessert tiramisu. However, Gianluigi Veronesi, a food writer, said that the world festival of b properly in Bologna any more”.
olognese sauce was too late “because frankly, they don’t even make it
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If you are like many people who have bought here in calabria in a development you will have come across the situation where your property is complete and it is time to organise a ma nagement committee for your building. This is a requirement here in Italy that will save you time and money on your new home. The procedure is very simple, firstly a company is formed to manage the development. This compa ny will be responsible for ensu ring that the development is kept legal, clean and habitable. Once the company is formed it will then have the responsibility to maintain the public spaces in the development such as stairways, car the relevant taxes, insurances and maintenance works are carried out.
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Mussolini iPhone app is best -seller in Italy Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors have protested to Apple over Italy's current best-selling iPhone application: a collection of the speeches of Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator. Demand for "iMussolini", subtitled "The man who changed the history of our cou ntry", has risen to the point where it is being downloaded 1,000 times a day accor ding to Luigi Marino, 25, its creator. It is more popular than a video game based on the film Avatar and an X-ray machine app which "allows you to see your friends naked". The app, which costs 79 Euro cents, contains audio, video and text of 100 speeches dating to 1914. Mr Marino said today that it had been downloaded 6,000 times since it was launched earlier this month, shortly before Italy marked Holocaust R emembrance Day and just days after Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the Rome syn aLocation: A3 Pizzo - 1st right - 1st right again in La Marinella, gogue. Pizzo, V.V. Call 338-4114003 or visit www.thefairywell.com Mussolini, who came to power in 1922, introduced anti -SemĂŹtic race laws in 1938 and allied himself with Nazi Germany dur ing the Second World War. Alessandra Mussolini, the dictator's granddaughter, who is a far -right politician, LIVE MUSIC - FOOD - IRISH DRINKS said: "Whether you like it or not, my grandfather's speeches are part of history." Leone Soued, head of the Jewish community in Milan, said: "One can hope it will not be a success, but I can understand why the man in the street might download it." Apple was "a serious mult inational which deserves respect for its innovations", he added. However, Tullia Zevi, former head of the Jewish community in R ome, said the app was part of the "the slide towards legitimising fascism and the rehabilitation of Mussolini". Armando Cossutt a, deputy head of the Italian Association of Partisans, said it was "an unacceptable attempt to exalt a filthy past". In the US Elan Steinberg, vice -president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said: "It is a disgrace and a surrender to crass co mmercialism that the Apple computing company has approved the release of this 'app' through their online iTunes store." He added: "We are protesting to them, as their tight regulation and control of release of such apps makes them responsible. This is an insult to the memory of all vi ctims of Nazism and Fascism, Jew and non-Jew, and should be condemned for its offence to decency and conscience." Mr Marino, fro m Naples, said Mussolini's speeches were freely available in libraries. He said he was not an apologist for Fascism "and I expre ss total solidarity with its victims". He asked people who downloaded the app not to post comments in praise of Fascism. iPhone Italy said the application was "not a political item but one of history". Italian historians have published revisionist views o f the Mussolini era in recent years, and a growing nostalgia for the Fascist period is reflected in sales of calendars, T -shirts, mugs and other souvenirs bearing Mussolini's name and image, not least in Predappio, the town in Emilia -Romagna where the dictator is buried.
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