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Brand Italy – Extra Virgin?

If you’re a regular reader of Italyville, you know that I’m passionate about true Italian brands and products.  One of those products is ITALIAN extra virgin olive oil.  I’m not talking about extra virgin olive oil that is brought into Italy from other countries to be mixed with Italian oil or simply bottled in [...]

Italian Turkey Day

This is one of my favorite weeks of the year.  I love the fact that Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday…. 1) because Thursday is my favorite day of the week and 2) because it’s a 3 day work week… 2.5 really.  For all the ex-pats living in Italy, I feel your pain!  I [...]

Gift Card Winner

Buona domenica!  I hope everyone is doing well on this sunny Sunday (in New England anyway) a few things that are happening today in Massachusetts:

It’s currently 30 degrees… with a high of 33 today.  BUT THE SUN IS SHINNING BRIGHTLY.  It actually hasn’t been above 39 degrees in over a week.  Nice right?

The Patriots are playing [...]

The Monster of Florence

For those of you who don’t know The Monster of Florence, it’s the name that has been given to the biggest serial killer in Italian history.  The first official Monster murders were committed in 1974 (there was also a murder in 1968 that may be a Monster murder as well) and the last was [...]

Caffe’ alla Nonna

There’s nothing like that frothy espresso that you get at the “Bar” in Italy.  If you have ever had a proper espresso, you know exactly what I mean.  It makes it special, tastier, worth paying for… doesn’t it?  The espresso maker at home can whip up a decent caffe’ but it lacks the frothy [...]

Tweak it until it Works

Un grande saluto a tutti!  I am back from my friend’s wedding in Mexico (Sayulita… what a beautiful town!) and after lots of trial and error, I finally got Internet Explorer to cooperate with the new Italyville.com layout.  I wanted to give a big THANKS to my friend Sally at Casalba News [...]

Italyville Challenges and VOTE

Changes sometimes come with challenges…. lots of challenges with the new Italyville so far.  I have a few blogger friends tell me that my posts show up on the sidebar instead of the body of the blog, which I couldn’t see until I visited the site on E’s computer…. OUCH!  my computer doesn’t show any layout [...]