One of the most important international events for design, furniture and architecture, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, starts today in Milan’s fair for its 48th edition.
Dates:
from 22th to 29th April 2009
Where:
Quartiere Fiera Milano, Rho
Entrance: Porta Sud, Porta Est, Porta Ovest
Hours:
Exhibitors 8.30 - 19.00
Visitors 9.30 - 18.30

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How to homemake Gnocchi. A particular Italian recipe for you.

For 2 people use 450g yellow potatoes, 150g flour, salt.
Cook potatoes and peel them when still hot, mash them and mix with flour, to get a sort of dough. From this, make a number of snake-shaped cylinders, to cut into little chops. Press every chop onto the edge of a fork, to shape it with characteristic little bumps.
Dust flour over the gnocchi to absorb humidity, so they don’t stick.
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Just a quick note to say that we have updated our small info page about Italian Flag with some nice videos, pictures and resources.
Check the Frecce Tricolori’s video, which shows one of the best and most famous military aerobatics formations in the world drawing a 5 Km long tricolor flag in the sky.

We think it could be useful to provide some answers to the most common questions about traveling from VENICE to ROME by train.
So, here we go with some information, and if you have suggestion about improving this post please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Question: how can I buy my train tickets from Venice to Rome?
You’ll be fine buying tickets on the spot at the departure station, from TICKET OFFICE DESKS or from an automatic machine, which also has an English language option and accepts cash/debit/credit card.
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Born in 1873 as a folk event, Viareggio Carnival at present can be considered as a dynamic and lively show, which attracts to itself the attention of big Italian and international medias, besides a large audience composed of people of every age and social level. Surely one of the most important carnival events in Europe, with hundreds of thousand visitors coming from all around the world.
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In a pan put butter and apple halves and cook on a low heat until tender (until you can easily pierce the apples with a fork).
Add the hazelnuts and stir for a few minutes. Turn the heat off and add sliced bananas. Stir and put everything in a large tin, then cover the fruit with puff pastry and put in heated oven (200°C) . To make things easier, put baking paper at the bottom of the tin before adding the fruit.
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Put in a deep pan 6 tablespoons of extravirgin olive oil and 50g of butter, 3 minced carrots, 1 minced celery, 1 minced medium onion, salt.
Let all fry slightly, stirring from time to time.
Add 500 grams of minced meat (half pork loin, half veal or beef) stir well until it’s perfectly mixed with the vegetables, add half a glass of milk, stir well until it all starts to boil, then add a bottle (1L) of pure pulped tomato (no ready sauces please!), stir well then put the pan on a low heat for at least 1 hour (the longer the better). This will keep the meat soft in the bolognese sauce. Adjust with salt.
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Sixty photo of great dimensions from Frank Fontana, photographer of international reputation and master of the color, the light, the sign and the creativity, that document his investigation realized along the 280 km that from goes from Rimini to Piacenza.
The Way Emilia, built from roman consul Mark Emilio Lepido between the 189 and 187 a.C., is a road that always has been source of inspiration for writers, poets, painters and photographers.
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A sicilian recipe: DESPERATE SPAGHETTI
from travelling italy collaborator Lorenza

Ingredients for 4 people: 600 gr. spaghetti, 500 gr. peeled tomatoes, 2 onions, 25 gr. black olives, 25 gr. capers, 25 gr. mushrooms, 3 anchovies, olive oil, marjoram, pepper & salt.
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WHY TO VISIT ITALY:
Italy is a moveable feast of seemingly endless courses. No matter how much you gorge yourself on its artistic and architectural wonders, its culinary delights, its natural splendours, you always feel you haven’t made it past the antipasti. Few countries offer such variety and few visitors leave without a fervent desire to come back. There is nothing new in that Italy has kept travellers spellbound since the earliest times of the Grand Tour. The great città d’arte (cities of art) are high on everyone’s list and all are intrinsically different. Rome bristles with proud reminders of its imperial Roman past, while Florence and Venice, two of the most powerful trading city-states of Renaissance Italy, are virtually outdoor museums. Many visitors don’t stray from these tried and true options but the entire country is strewn wuth artistic jewels, from the Norman-Byzantine wonders of Palermo to the Baroque marvels of Lecce. Italy exerts as much fascination beyond the cities: from the the walls of the Alps to the splendid beaches of Sardegna, there is something from everyone.

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