Martedi Gras- Fat Tuesday or in Italy, Martedi Grasso. What is the perfect food to celebrate? Something fried of course! All over Italy, someone is frying up sweets. Often with the same shape, but a different name. Here in Florence, we have Cenci, which means rags, like the shape they have, which looks like torn cloth. In Liguria and…
That time of year… Carnevale.. quando ogni scherzo vale!
Carneval in Italy is a big deal, not just in Venice where the costumes are really “over the top” but in small villages too. Florence has started a WORLD CARNEVAL, celebrating the large mixed cultures which now live here, quite a change from when I moved here in 1984, when the foreigners were the people…