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The Monti Cimini Chestnut near Rome The chestnut is certainly one of the most important of Tuscia’s typical products. Accounting for 30% of the region’s production – and 8% of Italy’s – the chestnuts of the Monti Cimini district have always played a leading role in the local economy. The Monti Cimini chestnut is derived from the species Castanea sativa, a local ecotype referred to as the "domestic chestnut of the Monti Cimini," and the “fiorentino" and "premutico" cultivars. In all species, the flesh is sweet and flavourful. The primary target market is the fresh one, in which the chestnut traditionally arrives after an initial cold-water soaking for two to six days in vats or wooden tubs. This conditioning, called “curing,” serves to block ...
Posted Jan 17, 2012 11:15 PM by Stefano Capoccioni -
Acquacotta alla Viterbese - Italian recipe Acquacotta is a typical dish of the Viterbo area. This simple dish originated as the meal of the “buttero”, as the cattle herders are called. There are lots of varieties. The dish in Viterbo is very special, and differs from the Acquacotta in nearby Tuscany in its ingredients and preparation. Water, chicory, potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, onion, wild mint and, before serving, a dash of extra-virgin olive oil. The ingredients sometimes vary according to the location. In the territory of Lake Bolsena, for example, the dish is called sbroscia, and is prepared with the addition of the lake fish, and cooked by the fisherman on the lake shores. According to tradition this soup was prepared with water from Lake Bolsena
Posted Jan 17, 2012 11:11 PM by Stefano Capoccioni -
Leonardo at Capitoline Museums For the first time offers the public a thorough comparison between the two Masters of the Italian Renaissance. The roman exhibition, set up at Capitoline Museums until 19 of February, shows sixty-six drawings: the ones of Leonardo are from the collection Veneranda Bibilioteca Ambrosiana Milan, the ones of Michelangelo are from Fondazione Casa Buonarroti Florence. The exhibition is divided into three sections. The initial one, "Masterpieces of Masterpieces," shows nine masterpieces of Leonardo (mechanical inventions, art, hydraulic, study of the geometry, the flight of birds and the mechanic flight) set to "confrontation" with the nine most famous drawings by Michelangelo, from the collection Casa Buonarroti, such as the “Naked back”, the enigmatic “Cleopatra” and the “Head of Leda”. The ...
Posted Jan 13, 2012 6:30 AM by Stefano Capoccioni -
Museo del Brigantaggio The museum aims to tell the stories of the Marema banditry in an anthropological perspective and offers visitors the opportunity to reconstruct the interpretation and stories of this phenomenon, from the second half of the nineteenth century up to now. in Particular, the museum aims to provide an ackknowledgment of the history and culture of the Maremma area which experienced the disruptive phenomenon of illegality and was associated with characters that, during the transition period of this land to contemporary age, received the label of brigands.The museum enhances the story of their roots in local textures and in the imagery of rebellion, showing the Tiburzi epic not as a reaction to modernity, but as an expression of the brigand ...
Posted Dec 7, 2011 9:08 AM by Stefano Capoccioni -
Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Rome When Johann Wolfgang Goethe arrived in Rome in 1786, he was already a world-famous writer thanks to his Werther. But he still was not that unquestionable genius of the “Elective Affinities” or invention of the concept of world literature.Goethe’s Italian Journey, which brought him to Rome for two full years, was not only for pleasure, but was most definitely a rebirth – as can be seen from records: ''In Rome I first found myself. For the first time, I achieved inner harmony, happy, reasonable...''. He was almost forty years old when he arrived in the Italian capital and from 1786 to 1788 he lived with the German painter, Johann Heinrich Tischbein, in his house in Via del Corso ...
Posted Nov 19, 2011 7:24 AM by Stefano Capoccioni
