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Strangolapreti, translated into "priest stranglers", is a dish with mythical beginnings and many regional interpretations. According to one, these dumplings got their name when a gluttonous priest ate too many too quickly and, as the name alludes, choked.
get lost... in genoa!
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Susan tucked away the city's map and discovered that surrendering to Genoa, letting Genoa reveal herself on her own terms, was the way to find the essence of this city of grand and humble treasures.
cellar your wine to it's best advantage
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Not all wines need aging. Some wines � including most whites and some reds � are meant to be enjoyed soon after their release. Certain attributes of a wine are enhanced by aging, while others are lost.
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de niro to be granted italian citizenship, i-a's protest
Robert De Niro will be granted honorary Italian citizenship early next month despite protests from Italian-Americans over his Mafia-related movie roles, a culture ministry spokesman said.
"If there are no bureaucratic problems," he said, the American movie star will become an Italian citizen during the upcoming Venice Film Festival, which runs from September 1-11.
The Sons of Italy in America objects to the "distorted" image its says De Niro has given to Italian Americans in various roles, and has written to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi asking that Italy rescind its offer.
"He has done nothing to promote Italian culture in the United States," the Washington-based group said.
De Niro, whose great-grandparents emigrated to the United States from the central Italian town of Ferrazzano in the Molise region, has played several crime figures of Italian descent, notably in "Godfather II" and "Goodfellas". more...
leaning tower of pisa now safe, experts say
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been given some 300 years more of life, Italian experts announced.
Reporting on the present conditions of the monument at the 32nd World Geological Conference in Florence, Italy, Turin University's Michele Jamiolkowski, president of the committee for the protection of the tower, said that the famous tilt has been finally halted.
Straightened by half a degree, the monument has stabilized for the first time in more than eight centuries.
"Apart from seasonal, cyclic movements, the tower has been basically motionless since September 2003. We believe geotechnical stabilization has been achieved," Jamiolkowski told the conference.
Cyclic displacements include the tower heating up at sunrise and slightly leaning to the west before returning to the original position.
The restoration has made the tower safe for the next 300 years, an achievement unimaginable 12 years ago, when the monument was so far off of perpendicular that it risked collapsing. more...
gondoliers row into action to unravel venice traffic tangle
Anyone who has ever visited Venice will know the problem: the Grand Canal is horrendously, perilously overcrowded.
Gondolas rear and plunge alarmingly in the wake of vaporetti (ferries) powering from one bank of the canal to the other. Water taxis swerve round lumbering barges, laden with everything from tourist baggage to household garbage. And, every so often, streaking through the chaos comes a river ambulance or police launch.
Now, the gondoliers, the most traditional of Venice's canal-users, have had enough and have announced a demonstration next Sunday against the congestion of the waterways. "We can't go on like this," said Roberto Lupi, a spokesman for the gondoliers. "Urgent measures are needed to put an immediate stop to this insane traffic."
The boatmen say they are taking action, not just for their own safety, but for that of the thousands of foreign and Italian tourists who pay to drift through the watery city aboard a gondola.
The decision to protest was taken after a one-year-old Dutch child came close to drowning last month when he and his entire family were tipped into the Grand Canal following a collision between a gondola and a vaporetto. Seven people have died in accidents along the two and a half mile canal since 1992. more...
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