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Gelato with a sustainable difference
I love going to Slow Food’s incredible events but my favourite is Cheese because it takes place in Bra, the beautiful little hilltown where the Slow Food movement was born. At this edition…
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Gelato Science
A dollop of gelato science featuring my all-time favourite interviewee, for his explanation of small ice crystals! Originally published on Radio DW 10 September 2012 https://www.dw.com/en/a-dollop-of-gelato-science/audio-16230314
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A tasty tradition in Italy
Bologna is home to many of the country’s most treasured pasta dishes, made using fresh egg pasta known in Italian as la sfoglia. The skill of making la sfoglia was traditionally passed…
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The Porticoes of Bologna
This festive season, there’s something extra to celebrate at Bologna’s traditional Christmas markets. The porticoes that shelter them – the covered arcades which characterize most of the city’s streets – this…
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International Festival of the Ocarina
The ocarina is a small terracotta wind instrument that looks, to some, like a miniature submarine, to others like a potato with holes in it. I think it looks like an…
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Dolly’s Prosecco
In 2006, Paris Hilton launched a drink. It was called Rich Prosecco, came in different fruity flavours and was marketed as ‘prosecco in a can’. In Italy it was considered an abomination…
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