The Smiling Eggplant

This blog has now officially closed. It's been an interesting ten years. Ciaone.

The enormously popular Italian comedy actor Paolo Villaggio has died at the age of 84. He was part of the large number of gifted comedians w...

The New York Times has a good compendium of pasta recipes  that they say are frugal, although the asparagus pesto (love it) may not be too t...

This isn't actually a proverb, but a proverb-like saying found on a building in lovely Ascoli Piceno in north-central Italy (see below),...

Here is an unusually good article on historic Italian libraries, published recently in the New York Times . It has to do with ancient librar...