Enza: Halloween Capitoline
"Sorry Dominic prepared something special for Halloween, I do not know ... maybe a menu of pumpkin or some typical dish of this party? Sa comes to visit my childhood friend from Veneto and I would take her out to dinner! "
" Oh, but printed in Rome mica in New York. "
" Oh, but printed in Rome mica in New York. "
And how he's wrong? Want to "du bucatini matriciana "with the" hair of the larvae moldy Dracula ", not to mention the 'vulture quartered herbal haunted" instead of Mr. "the lamb chops?
Despite the heart of the Capital has consumed the party of "Allowin - sign post next to a van that was selling pumpkins on the Cristoforo Colombo - more cool of 2010, where VIPs mascheratissimi, seem to have crossed the black carpet of the Aquarium, converted from an old church, complete with a pulpit, altar, holy water and religious, to access the 'Heineken Halloween Night , I do not "really know me prudent de nothing." For my first Halloween in Rome I had the feeling that the city was under siege more from the "land of the living " from that of the dead. The rain, in fact, has not stopped the crowds of tourists that each cost wanted to bring back images of many other tombs, altars and holy water and shoot one of the most beautiful in Rome, what you can admire the Arch of Septimius Severus.
And so my eve of the feast of All Saints I passed to the 'Old Brewery Peroni, cannelloni of the house and eating pork shank with roasted potatoes on All washed down with a nice cold beer. The brewery opened in 1864, after that came close to the factory in Vigevano, the first that Mr. John Peroni opens, choosing Rome for the sale of beer in bulk to the public. After a nice mug of beer my friend and I had already forgotten The risotto with pumpkin!
Both, however, we had a little 'nostalgia of our childhood.
Both, however, we had a little 'nostalgia of our childhood.
In Sicily, the Feast of the Holy followed by that of the Dead are a focus.
the night of October 31 you leave the table set with food and wine as a sign of welcome for the dead who want to come to to visit the living, while the day after the turn of the children search home canistru u "that the dead have certainly left during their visit notturna.Il" basket "is nothing more than a basket full of delicacies, where they can not miss the "bones of the dead " sweet made with flour, sugar, cloves and cinnamon, and Martorana fruit, which is the famous sweets made of marzipan.
a child with my cousins, for the occasion, were sleeping at grandma's house at dawn and we were all competing to find his basket, marked by a ribbon of color. The funniest thing was the exchange of marzipan sweets that followed, my prickly pear instead of a chestnut or a strawberry instead of apricot. But this year the luck of the ladybug I have not Martorana given to anyone.
Who knows! I decided, I'll suggest some recipes to Domenico, who knows if there is room for a bit 'of Sicily in his restaurant!!
the night of October 31 you leave the table set with food and wine as a sign of welcome for the dead who want to come to to visit the living, while the day after the turn of the children search home canistru u "that the dead have certainly left during their visit notturna.Il" basket "is nothing more than a basket full of delicacies, where they can not miss the "bones of the dead " sweet made with flour, sugar, cloves and cinnamon, and Martorana fruit, which is the famous sweets made of marzipan.
a child with my cousins, for the occasion, were sleeping at grandma's house at dawn and we were all competing to find his basket, marked by a ribbon of color. The funniest thing was the exchange of marzipan sweets that followed, my prickly pear instead of a chestnut or a strawberry instead of apricot. But this year the luck of the ladybug I have not Martorana given to anyone.
Who knows! I decided, I'll suggest some recipes to Domenico, who knows if there is room for a bit 'of Sicily in his restaurant!!
Giulia: Halloween, from macro to micro
The Tg says that this year was spent in Italy more than 400 million euro to celebrate Halloween, the pagan festival more and more Anglo-Saxon of our calendar.
My receipt says that I have spent € 7.53 to prepare for the event. The expenditure includes: two types of gummy candies, licorice and jelly beans. So too, in my small, have contributed to the attainment of an absurd figure.
My receipt says that I have spent € 7.53 to prepare for the event. The expenditure includes: two types of gummy candies, licorice and jelly beans. So too, in my small, have contributed to the attainment of an absurd figure.
When I think back to my first Halloween I can listed among the most traumatic experiences of my life.
I remember the evening of October 31 to five or six years ago, when in front of my door has presented a handful of witches, zombies, Dracula and miniature.
remember their sad reaction when they realized that my hesitation before the insistence of their request: "trick or treat?" Was due to the fact that I had no food in the house worthy of the name of "sweet".
remember that it offered them not without shame, a packet of chewing sugarless gum, pretending to be cowed by the possible consequences of the "joke".
I remember the evening of October 31 to five or six years ago, when in front of my door has presented a handful of witches, zombies, Dracula and miniature.
remember their sad reaction when they realized that my hesitation before the insistence of their request: "trick or treat?" Was due to the fact that I had no food in the house worthy of the name of "sweet".
remember that it offered them not without shame, a packet of chewing sugarless gum, pretending to be cowed by the possible consequences of the "joke".
year, but I've done caught unprepared by the night of All Saints: candy and plastic faux-carved pumpkin with light interior (bought on sale Nov. 2 for five or six years ago) were ready to accept scary ... too bad the little pilgrims, however, that it was raining too much and too strong, so the wise parent-have well-thought not to release the little children of the neighborhood.
Halloween 2010: filed without special notes.
Halloween 2010: filed without special notes.
Cristina: Halloween seen from the South Bay
The Romans used to say "Semel in years Licet insane."
Wise saying that in the States at the Halloween party I could readjust to "once a year is permissible to be horrified." Without going to disturb the sensibilities of some or many do not know, just do not like the macabre and distressing condition of this festival: the dead in their wake most horrible appearance every year, the same day, making an effort to get out terrible from land or from their concrete tombs.
And 'maybe this immense effort and the knowledge that the words "RIP" on their epitaphs will never be a reality, to make it so unbearable to the eye? Why to see them hanging from the balconies of the houses of the Strand of Hermosa Beach, or see their withered arms out like thirsty flowers gardens with lawn, they look really desperate ... looking back, rather than horror and fear, tenderness and compassion inspire me most.
And 'maybe this immense effort and the knowledge that the words "RIP" on their epitaphs will never be a reality, to make it so unbearable to the eye? Why to see them hanging from the balconies of the houses of the Strand of Hermosa Beach, or see their withered arms out like thirsty flowers gardens with lawn, they look really desperate ... looking back, rather than horror and fear, tenderness and compassion inspire me most.
the weekend preceding the day of great celebration, walking along the ocean from Redondo to and then Hermosa Beach to Manhattan, as well as enjoy the beach volleyball players of more or less good, but surely all California-style, or at least as we expect them to us, raised on bread and Hollywood (the stereotypes are like proverbs, they always have a grain of truth): tall, short hair for men and long blonde hair and mostly for women, athletic body with my deep envy, compared to net the immense expanse of sand, the pride of the South Bay, I could almost journalistic spirit, please note the extravagant decorations set up for the night of "trick or treat".
Many gardens, disregarding the rules of the town-plan have literally created impromptu graveyards infested with giant spiders plush. Some courts have been equipped for the perfect barbecue with the dead ... Ossetti he sure will not fail, and the most timid, or perhaps the most romantic exhibited only a few carved pumpkin.
At the end of the road or at least the one established for the day from my husband and I (if you want you can travel about 40 km walk along the coast, sore legs and blisters permitting) arrive at Manhattan Beach where he is playing the "Pumpkin race" with a lot of judges formalissimi and rigorous. Race pumpkins arranged in the most extravagant for the occasion, created in real time by participants with the tools provided by the laboratory of the organization: the pumpkin and wheels more. Some dart like torpedoes, other less fortunate not simply make the track gradient (a stretch of city street) and their spherical rolling just enough to say with satisfaction: at least I tried!
There are so many children , all masked and fortunately with the costumes including our classic carnival: no horror for kids!
We come back with your feet a little 'sore (after we walked for over 3 hours) the sun is setting, but we can not admire the beautiful colors because it is unfortunately the drizzling of the rain that I'm dusty and so to use an umbrella, especially here, I feel like an idiot, but in the end you dunk from the head down.
In the following days and before the fateful October 31, turning the streets of Redondo I came across, in witches, horror film characters in some pet friendly. I was about to return the greeting of a skeletal hand protruding from the window of a moving car if I had not jumped in fright, and I avoided instead of strings, for reasons of physical safety, the female version of Edward Scissorhands to supermarket, where I had a strong temptation to buy the cupcake for Halloween; beautiful, orange, inviting ... but then my conscience kept me healthy, sigh! last year taken from the euphoria of the "newly arrived who must now dive into the local traditions, we equipped with lots of sweets for the children and we have waited for their passage to the fateful request: trick or treat?
But no one knocked on the timetable set (we have learned that children in going from house to house have a curfew at 9 pm), of course, we live in an apartment building armored practically, how could we expect unannounced visits? Blessed innocence, some might say! Save if we tell the honor in our hearts we hoped that children who live in the palace? For the record, this year we just let it go.
And finally, I can not tell you about " chopped " a program that I follow with interest on the food channel : four chefs compete against each other shots recipe invented on the basis of a basket of ingredients surprise, from appetizers to desserts. Want to know what the episode aired the week of Halloween? Are you sure? It is not suitable for weak stomachs: the heart of lamb for a starter, black chicken, dentures draculine rubbery mushrooms pests of corn grown in Mexico that I can not repeat the name (the Mexicans consider it a delicacy ... de gustibus!) for the main course and dessert for grasshoppers (in English seems to suck less, but these grasshoppers .. . for food are very conservative!) red hot peppers, and something classic that I have stored having regard to its banality. The comments of chefs throughout the race? "It's disgusting!".
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