If you take the train in Italy, down away from the busier, more jaded parts, you'll find a place virtually untouched by international tourism, the part that is still so geniune as to charm completely. The food is excellent. The wine too. But it's the people that make the region
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He's the doctor. You're the engineer. They are the masters. She's a conductor. And on it goes. You could call it a 'tendency' but 'fixation' is closer to it, this preoccupation here in Italy with titles: It's not uncommon to witness long and rambling conversations between adults, without the single
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Is it 'irony'? If not, what else would you call it? How else would you explain this disparity, the perception of the Mediterranean basin as the cradle of simple, fresh, quickly-prepared foods, when, for the last 12,000 years or so it's to the long-simmered brown foods that nearly all of us owe
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