Marco Polo, spaghetti and the myth
Few of the myths that pervade the art of food are as persistent as the one that spaghetti were brought to Italy from China by Marco Pol...
15
Mar
Posts by Giulio Virduci
07
Feb
Serving Minestrone
Minestrone is an Italian soup.
Proof of this is the fact that it is written in Italian on the menus of restaurants from all over the...
25
Jan
The sound of the word “induction”
If there was one thing Michael Faraday couldn't stand, this was cacophony.
The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-soun...
24
Jan
Early Masterchef
When there was no Masterchef or any other reality show concerning food, a high-educated author and sophisticated philosopher had a very...
22
Jan
King Lasagna
Francis II of Bourbon was the last Monarch of the "Kingdom of the Two Siciles", the Reign located in the South of Italy, whose army and...
21
Jan
Drinking out loud
Not long ago, two researchers of the University of Bretagne/Sud (France) published a research paper showing the results of their experi...
20
Jan
The Pending Coffee
Did you know 10th of december is the "Caffé sospeso" International day?
Unless if you're not from that part of the world, it's unlikel...
18
Dec
The Spaghetti Tree
On April Fool's Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland), showing ...
15
Dec
Schiller’s inspiration
Friedrich Schiller was an amazing man of culture of the German Enlightenment age.
His intellectual production was huge, consistent a...
04
Dec
Borgia’s tagliatelle
Among all the characters of the Italian Renaissance, no one has been subject of so many rumours like Lucrezia Borgia.
Illegitimate d...
