Italian flavors

While Carnival, the day starts after the feast of St. Agate, February 4 and ends the day before Ash Wednesday, children and adults dress in costume. Children go from house to house on Halloween is like arriving in the U.S. and launch confetti (confetti). Adults attend lavish costume parties, or parties at home, when money is tight. The tradition, the balls began in late medieval masquerade was subsequently enriched by theCommedia dell'Arte characters for its popular and funny, like Harlequin, Pantalone, Dottore, Capitano, Columbine and Mirandolina. Comedy is comedy on the free market during the seventeenth century, and again during the festival. The comedy is spontaneous and has problems such as landlord to disturb the advertising, the maid.

Venice and Viareggio are known for their fantastic festival Carnival, also known on the street. Treated asstrufoli and donuts (pulp) and chestnuts (chestnuts) are enjoyed by all. The mood is A Carnival every joke Vale (in the carnival every joke is nice). Carnival is the highlights of the winter skiing in addition to fun on the sharp Italian mountains like the Alps and the Apennines.

Spring, summer and autumn evenings make magic with the parties on the terrace under a smiling moon, where music for dancing, finger foods and desserts to please the ear andPalate. Common sweet cannoli, granita (Italian Ice), croissants (Italian croissants). Drinks are the most common Cynar or Campari on ice. If you are serious about alcohol, like brandy or a Witch. House parties are to establish a great help for students, friends, and finding a treasure.

August is the summer for a month. Italians take the entire month of August. Who lives in the mountains to the beach. People who go to live on the beach in the country.city people prefer the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and the smaller islands like Capri, Alba and the Aeolian Islands. Everybody loves and visits to major cities of Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples and Rome for its history, art and cuisine.

While Ferragosto, Italy is the garden of Eden, where fruit and vegetables are available everywhere, in every street corner and the market (open market): delicious watermelons, sweet grapes, apricots, plums and peaches, all types of tomatoes, oranges,Mandarins, eggplants, cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkin. Italy is also a land of picturesque vineyards and olive groves. The Virgin Mary during the Feast of the Assumption at Assumption, Aug. 15 honored. Of course, if as bad as the Italians to take a nap.

As a proverb says: "If an Italian sleeping alone, he or she is sleeping angels, such as Italian, not only sleep with the angels see as others." This romantic Italian style! Coursethe only reason why Italians can take a nap, because they work from 8:00 until noon clock to go home for four hours to eat and enjoy romance and then back to work at 4.00 a clock 08:00. The evening dinner with family, then come and stay with friends at the bar, a bar in Italy and an ice cream shop, coffee shop and bakery.

The decreased production of wine. While machines have taken over, is still stomping grapes at least for fun and to keeptradition. winemaker invites family, neighbors and friends, with ripe grapes harvested by hand, then starts stomping grapes. Lunch at harvest typically Spaghetti Marinara, cod cacciatore, fresh fruit, cheeses and Italian popular natural wine last season. A beautiful tradition for guests to make toasts in rhyme while enjoying a meal. A toast guest "to wine, health and prosperity!" Going say around the table, others: "What white wine are the perfect clarity" and another guest, you can use "The food is delicious still true sincerity." jokes and pranks to add the happy event. Boys woo the girl, trying to get girls drunk and poetic toast. Everyone at the table joke, tease each other, while the elderly, "Remember the good old days." The fun is real and the wine is made. Long live Italy!

Most holidays are the same in America and Europe:> Christmas Eve / Day, Easter and New Year's Eve / Day, others are unique in Italy and neighboring countries of Italy, as the feast of Epiphany. La Befana is good witch who brings gifts to children on Epiphany Eve. Another holiday is Easter Monday, the Italians take very seriously. Easter Monday off into the country and stop at a local restaurant (dinner) for a meal or the Salumeria (in Delhi) are the sandwiches are very refreshing and very positive after the fortyDays of Lent, the period of repentance and introspection.

Other popular religious festivals are Italian Feast of San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph's Day), 19 March Giono of All Saints (All Saints) Day of the Dead 1 November (All Souls' Day), Nov. 2 and The Immaculate Conception ( Immaculate Conception) on December 8.

I must admit I'm partial to St. Joseph's Day, a popular southern Italy with a unique holiday dinner (lunch) menu:peachicks and get soup, cod (dried cod), fried calamari, stuffed artichokes, broccoli increased by Rabe in garlic sauce, dancing and donuts for dessert. Why St. Joseph will be held during Lent, there are meat dishes on the table, where guests invited and nineteen sessions (March 19 to 19). to play the hosts and guests a short prayer of thanks before and several times during the meal: "THIS IS Consolata Home With Jesus' Joseph and Mary" (Let this house will always findComfort in Jesus, Mary and Joseph!).

Italian children's naming conventions are straightforward: the first boy is named after his paternal grandfather, the second after his maternal grandfather, the first girl after her paternal grandmother, the second after the maternal grandmother, aunt subsequent offspring name a favorite uncle or dear family friend. In my case it was named after my paternal grandfather Joseph. Italians also celebrate the feast day, in addition to Birthdays.

The aromas of Italian cuisine for all tastes. Northern dishes, like risotto, osso buco, gnocchi, spaghetti with pesto and Southern dishes like lasagna, eggplant parmigiana baked ziti, stuffed shells and pasta with marinara sauce, a few minutes. The list is too long to be mentioned here again. What about pizza? Regular, Sicily or spingioni. I knew you wanted a book! Aha! Spingioni is a pizza made on the eve of the great> Holiday abstention from meat is traditionally required: Christmas Eve, New Year and Good Friday. The pizza is baked with tomato sauce, onion and peppers (with olive oil and butter before accession), bread crumbs, seasoned with parmesan, oregano, parsley, basil, rosemary and olive oil. The pizza is made, while a specialist, who just minutes before the pizza is ready, yet crunchy top to bottom.

Italian is theLanguage of the poet Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and Boccaccio. And 'the language of artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini, the composer Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini celebrate and inventors as Guglielmo Marconi. What about love, passion and pure joy? Visit Verona Juliet's balcony and admired Romeo pink every night so that he could with his Juliet.

AsPeople of all nationalities, the Italians are proud of their heritage, appreciate the love and perpetuate. Beliefs, customs, history, culture, religion, art and teaching the people who I am. They define and shape of the individual in the continuity of history and civilization, and the stream of progress to reach the eternal human soul is through the sky to touch the hand of God