Foodie in Italy

Italian food, wine & culture

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Photos
  • Via Francigena
    • Historical notes
    • The project
    • Day 0
    • Day 1
    • Day 2
    • Day 3
    • Day 4
    • Day 5
    • Day 6
  • Other treks
    • Camino de Santiago
    • GR 20 (Corsica)
    • Monte Rosa (Swiss-Italian border)
  • About

Coffee

Best-looking cup of milk you're every going to see

The best-looking cup of milk you’ll ever see (and my toast to Italy’s next prime minister)

So the Italian prime minister has just resigned (that happens all the time here, nothing to get too excited about), his replacement-in-waiting, Matteo Renzi, is under 40 (now that is indeed news for this geriatric country), and I’m going to tell you about…the best-looking cup of milk you have ever seen. No kidding. When I…

14 February 2014 in Coffee, Liguria.
In downtown Milan until December 8

Bialetti of coffee pot (moka) fame celebrates 80th birthday with Milan exhibition

It’s a big big day for Italy. Silvio Berlusconi, the man who has dominated, and I mean really dominated, Italian politics for the past two decades is about to get kicked out of the senate. He is also due soon to begin a year of house arrest or community service. But alas up here in…

27 November 2013 in Coffee, Lombardy, Milan, Politics.
Another positive externality of Italy's lingering summer - Salento, 3 October 2011

Long Italian Summer Being Cheered by This Coffee Drinker

Summer continues to loiter here in Italy like that last person that won’t leave your party even after the liquor has run out. This has presented many great positive externalities including the possibility to take an early October dip in the sea and, perhaps even more importantly, the hot weather needed to continue enjoying a…

6 October 2011 in Coffee, Puglia, Salento.

My Tweets

Archives

Categories

  • Art
  • Biking
  • Calabria
  • Campagna
  • Cheese
  • Coffee
  • Emilia-Romagna
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Guest Foodies
  • Homage to…
  • Liguria
  • Lombardy
  • Markets
  • Milan
  • Music
  • Olives/Olive Oil
  • Piedmont
  • Politics
  • Puglia
  • Recipes
  • Sagra
  • Salento
  • Sicily
  • Trentino-Alto Adige
  • Tuscany
  • Valle d'Aosta
  • Veneto
  • Walking
  • Wine

Tags

advent air Andy Warhol architecture Art biking Bologna Brant Foundation Calabria calendar campo tures cheese tastes Christmas Cinque Terre clean coffee Dessert Dilemma Duomo Emilia-Romagna exhibit fish food Friuli-Venezia Giulia HangarBicocca health Italian politics Italy Lecce Levanto Liguria Lombardy Magritte Marilyn Monroe markets Meireles Milan MIlano-San Remo miro Modigliani Monterosso music NSA olives Palazzo Reale Pasticciotto Piazza Picasso Piedmont Pirelli Puglia recipe Renzi restaurants Riomaggiore sagra Salento Shot Marilyn Sicily Snowden tallest building tips tortellini travel Trentino-Alto Adige Tuscany vacation Valle d'Aosta veneto Vernazza walking white truffles wine

Recent Posts

  • Installations, big and small
  • Warhol “Shot Marilyn” on display for one more week at Milan exhibition
  • The best-looking cup of milk you’ll ever see (and my toast to Italy’s next prime minister)
  • Cinque Terre in January – lots of rain, beautiful all the same
  • The pasticciotto dilemma
  • Magritte, Picasso, Modigliani and Miro at Milan’s Palazzo Reale

Sites I Like

  • Political Corner (in Italian)
  • Savory Simple
Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy