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How to Live in Italy: Essays on the charms and complications of living in paradise [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 146 pages, height x width x depth: 203x133x9 mm, weight: 172 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Jul-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • ISBN-10: 1478100532
  • ISBN-13: 9781478100539
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 146 pages, height x width x depth: 203x133x9 mm, weight: 172 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Jul-2012
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  • ISBN-10: 1478100532
  • ISBN-13: 9781478100539
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In putting together How to Live in Italy, a delightful collection of articles and essays written during her past ten years of living in Italy, Rebecca Helm-Ropelato has chosen 25 pieces that offer a wide-ranging view of Italy, its culture, its people, and its food. Included also are reflections on her own sometimes clumsy adaptation to learning how to live in a country known to many of its own asparadise. Sometimes serious, sometimes bemused, and at times funny, How to Live in Italy is a vivid account of an ex-pat's world. Helm-Ropelato is a former longtime resident of California. She moved to Italy in 2001.

In putting together How to Live in Italy, a delightful collection of articles and essays written during her past ten years of living in Italy, Rebecca Helm-Ropelato has chosen 25 pieces that offer a wide-ranging view of Italy, its culture, its people, and its food. Included also are reflections on her own sometimes clumsy adaptation to learning how to live in a country known to many of its own as paradise. Sometimes serious, sometimes bemused, and at times funny, How to Live in Italy is a vivid account of an ex-pat's world. Helm-Ropelato is a former longtime resident of California. She moved to Italy in 2001.
Introduction ix
Preface xiii
Part One Learning Curves
1 The L.A. Effect
3(4)
2 Odd twists and turns of new phrases
7(4)
3 Going to the movies, Italian style
11(4)
4 In Italy nothing beats local
15(6)
5 Roberto Benigni: Speaking in second
21(4)
6 A Whatchamacallit by any other name
25(4)
7 Book Review: Mouse or Rat? by Umberto Eco
29(8)
Part Two Food, Glorious Food
8 A grape snack
37(2)
9 Bread and water in Apulia
39(6)
10 Caffe Camelia and Rodolfo
45(6)
11 Calabria and the elusive eggplant
51(6)
12 Nuts about Nocino
57(4)
13 The Cook, the Sauce, the Critic, and the Grim Finale
61(6)
14 The birthplace of Gorgonzola. Maybe
67(6)
15 Artichokes transformed
73(6)
16 The everlasting Chianina cows
79(6)
Part Three Observing Italians
17 Body beautiful
85(6)
18 Diving in
91(4)
19 Neighbors
95(6)
20 Just standing around buying things
101(4)
21 Olive trees, olives and oh yes, the oil
105(6)
22 Dream house
111(6)
23 Rome's Vittoriano and its critics
117(4)
24 The art of seeing in Cortina
121(8)
25 St. Michael in the rain
129