Category Archives: ITALY

It’s your (un)lucky day

Posted on May 14, 2011 by The Daily Cure

OK. I meant to post this yesterday, but I got overwhelmed with “things” and, quite frankly, forgot. What a lousy blogger, when I can’t even say things on the days they are relevant, right? Wrong! Because today, I lived through … Continue reading →

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Keeping time, beautifully

Posted on May 9, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Let it be said straight-away: I could not afford one of these watches (once manufactured for the Royal Italian Navy) but I think they are things of beauty. The name? Officine Panerai. The company is now headquartered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, … Continue reading →

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Crispy memories

Posted on April 19, 2011 by The Daily Cure

This past Saturday we ate at Trattoria Ponte Rosso. The lunch was simultaneously satisfying, light, inventive and delicious—almost the same adjectives I would use to describe the place itself, tucked into one of those ancient, slightly sagging buildings on one … Continue reading →

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Hurry up and wait

Posted on April 18, 2011 by The Daily Cure

A few posts ago, I was inspired by the Trattoria Milanese (via Santa Marta 11, Milano) to write about tomato sauce. Remembering with mouth-watering fondness that meal and wondering, already, when I can hope to repeat it, I am trying … Continue reading →

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Confession #4: The risks involved

Posted on April 16, 2011 by The Daily Cure

Dear you (plural), it has been called to my attention by a recent comment I received that blogging—especially this sort of daily blogging—carries risks. Not seismic risks, but small risks of another sort altogether. The first risk is that in … Continue reading →

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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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