Author Archives: The Daily Cure

Chicken eggs

Posted on April 15, 2011 by The Daily Cure

My first full year in Milan, I was surprised in early April to see a large basket in my local bakery filled with a bed of straw and a pile of white chicken eggs. I wanted to buy some, to … Continue reading →

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Postcard #12: Furniture “500”

Posted on April 14, 2011 by The Daily Cure

[Perhaps not the most sophisticated design—but charming none the less: A picnic scene built around furniture made from the original Fiat 500. The Japanese were all over it. “Cin-cin!”]

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Abbracci e baci / Hugs and kisses

Posted on April 13, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Birds are doing it. Bees are doing it. Flowers and dogs and trees are doing it. Every park bench is taken. Every hidden corner. It’s happening astride motor-scooters at 45 kilometers per hour. In bus windows. On city monuments. Everywhere … Continue reading →

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All things rubber

Posted on April 12, 2011 by The Daily Cure

It’s a short leap from wisteria to bathing caps, don’t you think? And from there to rain boots, rubber tubing, textured floor tiles and file cabinets. Perhaps this seems a stretch to you, but in the world of all-things-rubber, stretchiness … Continue reading →

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Wisteria

Posted on April 11, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Milan is not what I dreamed of when I thought of Italy before coming here. It lacks the golden light of Tuscany. The ochres of Rome. The romance of Florence and Venice. It is a “working” city—urban, almost industrial by … Continue reading →

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Closed/Week in review

Posted on April 9, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Sunday “Special delivery: Inter loses to Milan 0-3” In which we bemoan the loss of Inter to Milan in the “Derby della Madonnina.” (Read this.) Monday “Who has seen the wind?” In which we celebrate the names of these mythic … Continue reading →

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Espadrille me, baby

Posted on April 8, 2011 by The Daily Cure

This post could be categorized, “What we wear / France.” Or, “What we wear / Spain,” if I were writing about Spain. But it is, at the moment, what we are wearing in Milan: Espadrilles. I’ve been wearing them for … Continue reading →

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Salsa di pomodoro

Posted on April 7, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Let’s just say it up front: tomato sauce shouldn’t be thick. I don’t know how many of you were raised in America in the 60’s and 70’s, but back then what we called “spaghetti sauce” was thick with tomato paste … Continue reading →

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Puntarelle

Posted on April 5, 2011 by The Daily Cure

I’ve been wanting to write about puntarelle since I started this blog, and today is the day. This funny vegetable, which almost defies description and which I never saw in the United States, is the basis of one of my … Continue reading →

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Who has seen the wind?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by The Daily Cure

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I…” But we can marvel nonetheless, and call it by name. Actually, we can call them by name, as the winds—at least in Italy—are plural, and go by first names only. And … Continue reading →

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