Monthly Archives: October 2012


Using the Saints as part of the Italian Craft

Using the Saints as part of the Italian Craft In Italy (and in the USA) much of “traditional” Italian culture now a-days often has at least a gloss (if not a thick coating!) of Christianity. This is because Christianity is still the overwhelming dominant religion and probably will be for […]


Agguingere e Soffriggere

Agguingere and soffriggere are my new favorite words! The homework for my Italian class was to take a recipe for Bolognese sauce and translate it into Italian using my growing grasp of Italian. This isn’t my sauce recipe, it’s the one that we were given to translate. I think that […]