Quanto? Tanto!

We are on our way back to California, and as always I'm feeling a muddle of happy and sad. California's warmer weather will be a nic...

Shortly before we arrived in September I learned that Marco Rossetti, the father of our friend, Debora, had passed away. Debora and I had ta...

Privileged snot that I am, I've never paid attention to the size of my electric bill. Even during the years when we were genuinely strap...

Faithful reader criticalfart will be glad to hear that the only McDonald's in Fidenza seems to have been one of the town's COVID cas...

When Italians elsewhere in this country hear that we live part-time in Fidenza, they often mishear (not surprising, given our non-native acc...

The classic Italian meal includes a primo, the pasta course; a secondo of meat; a contorno ,  a vegetable side; and fruit and coffee to fini...