Italian
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Pimpa – The Director’s Cut
The celebration of an Italian children’s classic. Link to the full programme on Inside Europe, broadcast on 16 October 2025 https://www.dw.com/en/inside-europe/program-19041931
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Making Piadina with Zia Dany
I recently went to the east side of this region to make a feature for Monocle Radio’s The Menu about Romagna’s nationally famous local flatbread, piadina. My journey of discovery took me to Piadina Experience in Riccione, where my guide, the wonderfully vivacious Elena Barzotti, organized a piadina-making workshop just for me with their resident teacher, Zia (Aunty) Dany.…
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Italian Easter
With Easter upon us, Inside Europe (on DW) asked correspondents to share their favourite local traditions… Published on Radio DW April 2025
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Happy Chooks!
If you’re keen to be green, how about getting yourself a couple of chickens? They give you fresh eggs, keep your garden fertilized and can actually be ideal allergy-free pets, thus ticking all boxes! Hundreds of Italians have already started embracing this virtuous circle as I found out on a farm near the town of…
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Where vegetarianism is an exotic illness
Emilia Romagna is a region in northern Italy famous for its fine charcuterie, which can make avoiding meat dishes there particularly challenging. One of the nicknames of my adoptive town is “Bologna la grassa”, or “Bologna the fat”. The local diet is about as Mediterranean as chicken tikka masala. There is mortadella, a sausage known…