Bisol

Why I'm no longer a champagne snob

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May 18th 2015
We spend the morning at the market bumbling our way through purchases of fruit that actually smelled like fruit, gnocchi and fresh pasta, cheese, prepared salads. The prosciutto and a chicken stuffed with forcemeat of chicken and asparagus was lovingly sliced as thin as paper and gently wrapped. We had no trouble getting to the Avis office to pick up the car and find a “be back soon” sign in ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more