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Monte Nuovo(see photo), nearArco Felice, is another remarkable feature of theCampi Flegrei. The name means "new mountain" and is entirely appropriate. It was born in a matter of days, beginning early in the morning of September 29, 1538. In geological terms, mountains don't come much ne...
Intrepid travelers, we were coming back in style, our pockets now lined with the new Euro, equal to the dollar in value. No Pensione Suisse (which always smelled of Pine-Sol and Clorox) this time around. We were going to slum it at the new five-star stylish Hotel de Russie, unofficial...
Intrepid travelers, we were coming back in style, our pockets now lined with the new Euro, equal to the dollar in value. No Pensione Suisse (which always smelled of Pine-Sol and Clorox) this time around. We were going to slum it at the new five-star stylish Hotel de Russie, unofficial...
Pizza was invented in Naples, which most everyone knows is the Pizza Capital of the World. And this carries onto the Amalfi Coast, where just about every place that has Pizza, makes some of the best Pizza in the World. And if you have the time, take a day trip to Naples to hit a...
In my kitchen are a set of pasta rolling pins. I am guessing this is what they used to use to make pasta before machines. (My nonna also used to use the dried stalk of a wheat plant to make a bucatini style pasta by hand, I remember her showing me years ago and so regret not ...
This morning there is a human interest story on the front page for a change. There is a photo, taken in Portland, Oregon of a young man and woman—"street people"— sitting on their bags on the sidewalk. One of them is holding up a sign that says: "Pizza Schmizza paid me to hold...
In Naples it is still possible to see large coach/hearses --huge glass and gold affairs from another century-- drawn by as many as eight horses. Some people save their money so they can blow it all on going out in style, keeping the "bella figura" --a strange phrase meaning anything...