March 2, 2015
This past week I have been working from Italy and I realised something was missing from my life: the kettle. It might not seem like a big deal, but this...
February 16, 2015
Remember my previous post about bread-inspired idioms in Italian? I had a warm response from Twitter peeps, so I had the idea to enlist some lovely colleagues who would share...
February 9, 2015
If you follow me on social media, you might have seen that I often retweet information about The Universal Exhibition in Milan (Expo 2015) and I said I was very...
February 2, 2015
When you buy a fiction book, the only thing you expect is to be entertained; you might like or not the story or the writing, but the judgment is down...
January 26, 2015
Bread and a filling of choice is one of the most usual lunch options for office workers, in the UK and in Italy. In Italy, you choose between a panino...
January 19, 2015
There is no doubt that a language is the reflection of its culture, and idioms are a clear example of this. The fact that Italian is a language whose idioms...
January 12, 2015
You might know that in 2015 Milan will host the Expo, whose theme is going to be nutrition and sustainability (the name is "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life"). I...
December 15, 2014
The other day a colleague was working on the localisation of a tweet and asked me "what would you say is traditional Italian Christmas dish?". I gave him one answer,...
December 8, 2014
I have already said it, and I hope most of you will agree: food is culture. Knowing another country's food can make us have a deeper understanding of its culture...
December 1, 2014
They say it's the most important meal of the day and personally, I cannot function properly without it: I'm talking about breakfast. People do it in every culture, so it...