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10 Awesome Italian Christmas Sweets That Are Not Panettone

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Panettone is undoubtedly the most typical Italian Christmas dessert. 

Born in the north of Italy, it can now be found on the table of every Italian family at Christmas. If you do not know about it, panettone (which can be translated as big bread) is a sweet bread loaf with a cupola shape, usually weighing more or less 1 kilo.

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[Family Recipes] Antipasto piemontese

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Cooking is not just warming food to fill your stomach when you are hungry.

Cooking is choosing ingredients carefully to prepare something healthy and tasty. Cooking is taking the time to prepare things with the people you love and for the people you love. Cooking is sharing your knowledge with others and learning something new. Cooking is making memories for the future.

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10 great Italian vegetarian dishes

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I’ll never get tired of saying it: you can’t really appreciate a trip to Italy without properly tasting its food. 

Food is such a big part of Italian culture that you can’t say you have really seen Italy if you came here and just ate hamburgers and fries.

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[Family recipes] Chiacchiere

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Carnival has come and almost gone, it’s definitely time to eat some chiacchiere!

As I told you last week, Carnival is in full swing here in Italy and we are eating loads of chiacchiere – as they can be found at this time of the year only.

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[Family Recipes] Panettone genovese

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Warning: this post contains a lot of sugar! 

One of the great things about Christmas is that you can eat sweets without feeling (too) guilty. It is time to cheer, to celebrate, to be happy, not exactly the time to count calories. And I love it, let me confess!

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[Italian Traditions] All Saints’ Day in Italy

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How do we celebrate All Saints’ Day, here in Italy? 

First of all, let me just tell you one thing: we do not celebrate Halloween. Ok, I should be more precise: we used not to celebrate Halloween in the past, we have been doing it only lately.

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[Family recipes] Stuffed Chili Peppers

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I am baaaaaaack!

As you may know if you are a subscriber of my newsletter, I have been on holiday. My husband and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this year and we wanted to do something special.

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[Family recipes] My mother’s traditional limoncello recipe

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Summer is in full swing, finally. 

After some rainy and cold days in late Spring, it is finally time to go out and enjoy the sunshine. The moment has come for endless days at the beach, outdoor concerts, day trips to the mountains, bike rides, feet in the grass, and long nights spent chatting with friends.

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When do Italians drink cappuccino? The final words about the cappuccino rule

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I have been reading a lot about Italy lately.

I started thinking about this site and working on my products more than one year ago, and I haven’t stopped reading blog posts, articles, and books about Italy ever since.

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