Perfect Scrambled Eggs?

Monday, February 8th, 2010 - by - No Comments

This recipe for Perfect Scrambled Eggs is getting lots of play among internet foodies these days. It involves a cobbled together double boiler.

This is a pretty fussy way to do it I think. The double boiler is really just a crutch to ensure that the temperature of the pan in which you cook the eggs doesn’t get hotter than the boiling point of water.

Here’s my recipe for perfect scrambled eggs.

Gently whisk eggs with a little water and set aside. Jab a toe of garlic with a fork, so that it sticks in the tines. Jab it lots before it sticks if you want more than a tiny hint of garlic in your eggs. Meanwhile, heat a saute pan under a very gentle heat. If you have an electric stove this should be easy. When the pan is warm add a tablespoon of butter, which should melt luxuriously but not bubble furiously or darken in color—throw it out if it does and start over.

Then tip your bowl of eggs and let them gently slide into the warm pan. After a few seconds start gently forking your eggs. See? The tines of the fork can’t do any damage because they’re covered with the garlic. Clever, no?

Just before the eggs are “done”—they should still glisten wetly, tip them into the plate and let them set a bit so that they finish cooking.

Then season and eat. (You don’t add milk or salt to the eggs before cooking because it toughens them.)

That’s how I do it. Except for the times I chop some pancetta in the eggs before cooking that is.

 

Top Italian Music Hit of 2009

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Italian music blog ChartItalia which follows the contemporary Italian music scene, recently published a list of the top 100 hits in Italy for 2009.  So what, I asked myself, was the top Italian music hit of 2009?

Interestingly, for me anyway, it is not an Italian track which made it to the top of the top 100 for 2009, it was instead, those Black Eyed Peas people with their number ‘I gotta feeling’.

Were there any Italian tracks in the top 10 of the top 100 for 2009?  The answer is yes, there were, and the highest ranking track is significant in that it reflects an event in 2009 which touched the hearts of many Italians.  Indeed, ranked at number 4 is the track Domani 21.04.2009.

Quite a number of well-known Italian musicians got together to make Domani 21.04.2009 as a fund raiser in the aftermath of the Abruzzo earthquake.

Here is the track for you to listen to, and seeing as this is a karaoke version, you can either sing along, or, if you don’t feel up to singing, you can simply read the words and listen.  This may well help anyone out there who is learning Italian, even if not all the words are Italian.

Happy listening!  You will also find the names of rest of the top 10 tracks in Italy in 2009.

Domani 21.04.2009 – Karaoke Version

Click here to view the embedded video.

The Top 10 Hits of 2009 in Italy from Il Blog di ChartItalia

The numbers in brackets show the chart position and the week in 2009 in which the position was reached.

1. I gotta feeling – Black Eyed Peas (1 / 26)

2. This is the life – Amy MacDonald (1 / 26)

3. Poker face – Lady Gaga (1 / 52)

4. Domani 21.04.2009 – Artisti Uniti per l’Abruzzo (1 / 35)

5. Indietro – Tiziano Ferro (1 / 35)

6. Come foglie – Malika Ayane (1 / 35)

7. When love takes over – David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland (1 / 32

8. Sincerità – Arisa (1 / 19)

9. L’amore si odia – Noemi feat. Fiorella Mannoia (1 / 17)

10. Ti vorrei sollevare – Elisa con Giuliano Sangiorgi (1 / 12)

To see the rest of ChartItalia’s list, click on this link:  La Top 100 del 2009: i brani di maggior successo dell’anno – The Top 100 of 2009: the most successful tracks of the year.

I’m sure music fans will recognize plenty of international names.

Fascinating Hit Parade Italia

Italian readers who would like to know more about the music scene in Italy will find the information on ChartItalia’s ‘mother’ site, Hit Parade Italia quite fascinating, I imagine. And it’s not some site thrown together by a hormonally challenged Italian teenager, at least I don’t think it is.  No, it’s does appear to be genuine attempt to follow and record, if you’ll excuse the pun, which music is being listened to by Italians through the years.

If you are into this sort of thing, Hit Parade Italia will keep you occupied for hours on end!  Even if you are not a music fanatic, but you would like to get to know Italian music better, then the Hit Parade Italia site will help you unearth new and interesting stuff to listen to on YouTube.

Hey man, I dig ChartItalia. It’s well groovy. Yes, I know I’m getting a bit too close to the big five oh to be writing such words, but one has to try to sound hip and trendy every so often. Even if one fails miserably…

Hey, I can feel a mid-life crisis coming on.  Well, I did go and buy a guitar. Pass me my plectrum, man.

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TSA and Excess Baggage: Hiring Convicts Is Good

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I’ve always wondered how long an outfit like UPS or FedEx would last if they “lost” packages with the regularity of the airlines. Nobody seems to care that airline luggage seems to go missing, least off all the US government agencies in charge of looking into such things. I wonder why that is. Could be the TSAs fixation on shoes, but who knows for sure? The thing is, if nobody cares about missing baggage, can that fact be exploited in an effort to kick-start the economy?

If recent news of the TSA’s insistence that an new hire with a conviction for stealing get full access to your baggage is any indication, I’m suspecting that the Feds have determined that not enough baggage has gone missing in recent times and they have a clever fix in mind. (see: TSA Tells Richmond Airport to Give Convict Full Airport Access)

Before you call me an my idiotic ramblings ridiculous, let’s do something different. Sure, the media is picking up the TSA story and clucking their tongues over it with the fervor of jolly religious dingbats convinced of their own moral superiority while running off with a random selection of foreign children. But, I’m always trying to think along the lines of my anthropology mentor Marvin Harris. Marv wrote a bunch of books analyzing apparent cultural oddities. He could explain, for example why Indians don’t eat cows and why it was good for Indian society as a whole that they didn’t—even when protein was scarce (Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches; you should read it). Let’s put on our Marvin Harris Thinking Caps ($29.95 at geeks-r-us).

The economy is in a slump. New products aren’t moving. American jails are bulging at the seams, threatening to explode. The unemployment rate is high.

So, it is entirely logical and good that we hire convicts, especially if we can get them at bargain-basement salaries. It relieves the pressure on the US crack prison system (few countries can come even remotely close to the participation level of US prisons) and employs the unemployable.

Now, if you can travel today, especially to a foreign country like Italy, you are, by definition, flush with cash—mainly because so few people outside of Goldman Sachs execs have any. What if we hired convicts, pay them little, but allow them authorized access to all the cool stuff we’re smuggling into the country from Europe, like our Salame Toscana?

So, despite the fact that the pay is so low that the newly hired folks can’t afford food, we can rely on the fact that the resourcefull among them can get boundless energy from the prime preserved pork that nobody could reasonably expect to get into the country anyway.

As we know and many have experienced, every once in a while a whole bag is stolen for its cash value. You can’t get around that.

But that’s good for the economy, too. You lose your bags. You need new luggage. You buy it. The economy jerks spasmodically into action. People in China start stitching for a nickel an hour, making $400 bags by the boatload. Travelers buy bags they lack. Corporate baggage barons buy yachts. Middlemen head back to their “offices” and start stuffing countless dollars into pole dancers’ bras again! Money flows, especially to crack pushers. Good times are here la-di-da!

So, to summarize: low TSA pay to convicts with cost-free benefits is a cheap way to move the bowels of a stuttering economy while at the same time giving travelers the warm and cozy feeling of increased security. Relieving the economy of excess baggage creates demand for same and renewed economic strength.

You’ll think my analysis is pretty amazing when the good times start rolling. Soon.

 

Guess Where in Italy? – Part 10

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This week’s Guess Where in Italy? photo quiz on BlogfromItaly.com features a photo courtesy of @pixiebisous, whose colourful image caught my little eye on Twitter.

Ninja obsessed Italophile @pixiebisous thinks that people, especially Italians, will find it easy to guess which picture postcard Italian seaside village has been immortalised in her photograph.

Now, although I have some idea as to where the place in the photo is in Italy, I’m not 100% sure.  All I know is that I have not been there, but after having seen the photograph, I’d quite like to.

Over to you dear readers: Can you guess where in Italy this seaside village is? And what its name is?

Just one little favour. As this should be easy for Italians, can you please wait until Sunday before guessing?

Guess Where in Italy this Scenic Seaside Village Can Be Found?

Guess Where this seaside place is in Italy.

Guess Where this seaside place is in Italy.

Try to name of the place in the photograph.

With thanks to @pixiebisous for letting me use her photo.

Give Away Next Week

This quiz is just for fun, although next week, the first person who gets the correct answer will receive a €25 (c. $34 USD and just shy of £22 UKP, as at today’s exchange rates) Amazon Gift Voucher, or a one year subscription to Flickr Pro.

The Answer to Last Week’s Guess Where in Italy? Quiz

Last week’s Guess Where in Italy Photograph was of the Italian city of Mantua – Guess Where in Italy? – Part 9. And Italy expert Nora of Enchanting Italy guessed correctly.  Well done Nora!

I’ll be writing more about this intriguing Italian city soon.  If you follow @newsfromitaly on Twitter, you’ll be told when the Mantua post is published.

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Those Dirty Hotels

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TripAdvisor, the travel site that’s gained fame from using unpaid content from users to create an online travel empire, is in trouble for a list of the UKs dirtiest hotels it published recently. Turns out hotel owners want an EU commission to start looking into limiting anonymous reviews. Hotel owners would like make sure that “reviews are posted by genuine guests and not by rivals or people simply out to cause mischief.”

I’d have to agree. Anonymous reviews are pretty worthless unless there’s a critical mass of them. Sure, eventually you can learn enough to spot a clunker with pretty good accuracy, or at least you think you can.

The difference between (good) professional writing and anonymous drivel is in the details—no matter if the subject is pornography or hotel reviews. A pro can’t say “the room was too small” without defining exactly how many square feet too small is. A porn pro can’t say “it was gargantuan” without a ruler and…well, you get the picture.

It’s odd reading reviews that trumpet the idea that “service was not up to snuff” when we don’t know what snuff is, or what level of “service” the reviewer expects. Is “service” what’s provided by information gleaned from the staff? Or is bad service defined by the fact that nobody carried your 2700 pounds of luggage up to the room with a smile the minute you arrived? The degree of goodness or badness is always related to expectations, and a good reviewer has to be a slave to that fact. An anonymous unpaid reviewer isn’t necessarily a slave to any facts, and there’s the rub.

Besides, cleanliness isn’t the half of it. One of the memorably bad hotels I’ve ever stayed at was one of the cleanest. It cost more per night than I usually spend for a week in a self catering apartment. It had two bathrooms and a little office with a sofa. Every day the maid came in an rearranged my stuff on the desk so I had little chance of finding or making use of it, then turned on each of the 37 lights so that when I came home at midnight, stanco, or “tired as all get out” as we say in America, and pushed my card key into the wall I was greeted with an explosion of light. If I my tired eyes didn’t snap wide open from all that, I was certainly wide awake hours later when I had finally managed to extinguish all but the one light I’d need to turn on at night—what little was left by then of the darkness of it.

I don’t need a gargantuan room. Just a quiet place and a comfy bed without critters, a bathroom that works right and a staff that leaves me and my stuff alone. Now you know.

Here’s how I find hotels. (Hint: good companies limit reviews to folks who’ve stayed in those hotels, it’s not rocket science to program this stuff.)

Here’s the article which inspired this post.

 

Legitimate Impediment is Not A Blockbuster

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 - by - No Comments

Legitimate Impediment is not, as one might think, the latest Hollywood blockbuster courtroom drama about to burst onto 3d screens in cinemas around the world near you.  Instead, it is the latest ruse by Italy’s colourful leader to get himself of embarrassing legal hooks.

The most recent card in the get out of court free pack is a law based on something called ‘legitimate impediment’.  What this new law will mean, if it slips all the way through Italy’s parliament, is that if Italy’s premier decides that he has important government business to attend to, he can have any court causes he is called to appear in postponed for six months.

By repeatedly making legitimate impediment claims it will be possible for an Italian prime minister in power to keep himself out of the range of Italy’s courts for a total of up to 18 months. Very neat.  Somebody is probably preparing the invitations to a series of legitimate impediment parties to be held at Berlusconi’s party paradise on Sardinia, as I write this.

This clever, or ‘furbo’ little legitimate impediment move, will also give the legal team acting on behalf of the Italian prime minister lots of time to dream up new defences.

Not everyone though, is overly happy with what opposition politicians, and some members Italy’s population, regard as being a screenplay which is nothing more than yet another Save Silvio drama.

Italy is Not A Normal Country

During the reportedly rather heated discussions which took place in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies today, at least one senior Italian politician howled dramatically that “Italy is not a normal country”.

Despite such comments from critics, the bill passed without difficulty.

Next Stop the Senate

Next stop for this bill is Italy’s Senate, and provided the wording of the draft Keep Silvio Safe law does not change, Italy’s president Napolitano official stamp is next on the list.  Napolitano can send the bill back down to Italy’s two houses for discussion and possible amendment once and once only, then when it returns, he has to sign it and it will become law.

Legitimate impediments will become Reforms

Silvio Berlusconi has stated that once he is free from unnecessary judicial hassle; Berlusconi has always maintained he is innocent; he will be able to get on with ruling Italy.

There is a chance that the latest method of keeping Silvio safe law will be declared unconstitutional, as such legislation does tend to go against the ‘All are equal in the eyes of the law’ principle of the Italian constitution, albeit indirectly this time.

Berlusconi’s Star Lawyer

Nicolo Ghedini, Berlusconi’s lawyer, who also just so happens to be a member of the Italian parliament, is pretty good at what he does, one has to admit.  If I were Berlusconi, I’d give Ghedini a raise.  Ghedini is a star.

Actually, Legitimate Impediment would not be a bad title for a movie…  Direct me if I am wrong.

Further reading:

Ansa.it, 3 February, 2010 – House approves legal impediment bill

BlogfromItaly.com 27 January 2010 – How Laws become Laws in Italy

BlogfromItaly.com November 17 2009 – Saving Silvio Berlusconi

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Legitimate Impediment is Not A Blockuster

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Legitimate Impediment is not, as one might think, the latest Hollywood blockbuster courtroom drama about to burst onto 3d screens in cinemas around the world near you.  Instead, it is the latest ruse by Italy’s colourful leader to get himself of embarrassing legal hooks.

The most recent card in the get out of court free pack is a law based on something called ‘legitimate impediment’.  What this new law will mean, if it slips all the way through Italy’s parliament, is that if Italy’s premier decides that he has important government business to attend to, he can have any court causes he is called to appear in postponed for six months.

By repeatedly making legitimate impediment claims it will be possible for an Italian prime minister in power to keep himself out of the range of Italy’s courts for a total of up to 18 months. Very neat.  Somebody is probably preparing the invitations to a series of legitimate impediment parties to be held at Berlusconi’s party paradise on Sardinia, as I write this.

This clever, or ‘furbo’ little legitimate impediment move, will also give the legal team acting on behalf of the Italian prime minister lots of time to dream up new defences.

Not everyone though, is overly happy with what opposition politicians, and some members Italy’s population, regard as being a screenplay which is nothing more than yet another Save Silvio drama.

Italy is Not A Normal Country

During the reportedly rather heated discussions which took place in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies today, at least one senior Italian politician howled dramatically that “Italy is not a normal country”.

Despite such comments from critics, the bill passed without difficulty.

Next Stop the Senate

Next stop for this bill is Italy’s Senate, and provided the wording of the draft Keep Silvio Safe law does not change, Italy’s president Napolitano official stamp is next on the list.  Napolitano can send the bill back down to Italy’s two houses for discussion and possible amendment once and once only, then when it returns, he has to sign it and it will become law.

Legitimate impediments will become Reforms

Silvio Berlusconi has stated that once he is free from unnecessary judicial hassle; Berlusconi has always maintained he is innocent; he will be able to get on with ruling Italy.

There is a chance that the latest method of keeping Silvio safe law will be declared unconstitutional, as such legislation does tend to go against the ‘All are equal in the eyes of the law’ principle of the Italian constitution, albeit indirectly this time.

Berlusconi’s Star Lawyer

Nicolo Ghedini, Berlusconi’s lawyer, who also just so happens to be a member of the Italian parliament, is pretty good at what he does, one has to admit.  If I were Berlusconi, I’d give Ghedini a raise.  Ghedini is a star.

Actually, Legitimate Impediment would not be a bad title for a movie…  Direct me if I am wrong.

Further reading:

Ansa.it, 3 February, 2010 – House approves legal impediment bill

BlogfromItaly.com 27 January 2010 – How Laws become Laws in Italy

BlogfromItaly.com November 17 2009 – Saving Silvio Berlusconi

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Electrifyingly Innovative Piaggo

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - by - No Comments

Most people know what a Vespa scooter is, even if not quite as many may be aware that Italian company behind the iconic Vespa is Piaggio. It looks as though Piaggio might be aiming to create another legend, only this time, it may bein the form of a city car, and new electric powered car at that.

Still today, Piaggio’s Vespa’s can be seen buzzing along the streets of Italy.

Nowadays though, the Vespa is no longer a form of utilitarian transport aimed at helping Italians weave their way safely around the potholes which littered post-war Italy’s roads.  Oh no.  Today, in much the same way as the humble Mini and Fiat 500 have been resurrected, and transformed from cars for the people into playthings for the wealthy, today’s Vespa’s are fashion accessories which cost about as much as an Armani suit.

A Modern Vespa

A Modern Vespa

Piaggio’s clever transformation through the years has helped the company grow from its humble beginnings into an international organisation which makes around 600,000 vehicles a year and has operations in 50 countries around the world.

Ever the innovator, Piaggio is once again gazing into a crystal ball, and as with many vehicle makers, this Italian company appears to see the future as being green, environmentally amicable, and electric powered.

Electric City Car by Piaggio?

In a recent chat with journalists, Piaggio chairman Roberto Colaninno hinted that his company might well be working on an electric powered city car.  Colannino also named cities which would benefit from such clean green personal transport.  Cities such as San Paolo in Brazil, Cairo, Beijing, Bombay, as well as London, Paris, and Milan.

Piaggio Has Found Markets

It sounds as though Piaggio has already found markets, so now all it needs to do is to build an innovative product which will be liked by such markets.

Seeing as Piaggio’s foresight led to the legendary Vespa, it does look as though the company has the credentials to come up with what might well be the world’s first mass-produced, mass selling electric powered car.

Only time will tell whether Piaggio’s move into the realms of green transport will lead to an environmentally friendly product which becomes as iconic as the Vespa.

Piaggio’s Next Legend?

Sounds as though we should be keeping an eye on this Italian company.  I’m 100% certain Piaggio would love to repeat the success of the Vespa and in doing so create another Italian legend.

Time to watch this space!

Piaggio qualifies as a ‘Good Italian Thing’.

Links to More information:

Motori.it 26 January 2010: Piaggio farà un’auto elettrica? – Will Piaggio Make an Electric Car? – in Italian

Wikipedia: The Piaggio company

Vespa

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When Digital Television is not Digital

Monday, February 1st, 2010 - by - No Comments

For a long time I thought we were lucky enough to have the new fangled, all singing and dancing, much vaunted digital television.  No silly little set top box for us, or so I thought.

I was wrong.  Just after Christmas our digital television provider Fastweb stopped transmitting Italy’s state RAI television channels.  The transmission ceased in readiness for the completion of the transition from analogue to digital television in Italy, I learned.

This was the point when I realized that the digital television service we had watched for a good few years was not as digital as I thought it was.

Losing RAI was bad news, as the only other half-decent television channels which remained were something called channel 7, which rarely shows anything worth watching, and Berlusconi’s free-to-air three: Rete 4, Italia 1 and Channel 5.

We wanted RAI back, and, thankfully, we got our way.

So why wasn’t our supposedly digital television not actually digital?  If you are curious, read on.

Both my other half and myself were rather miffed to have lost RAI, as this left us with Mediaset which tends only to transmit the news according to Berlusconi.  The rest of the Mediaset programming is fine if, a) you are a Berlusconi disciple, b) Big Brother is your thing c) you like American TV crime series such as CSI.  Otherwise it’s better to surf the web or watch a DVD.

I admit that we both like CSI, but very little of the rest, and one gets the feeling that Berlusconi’s TV channels are little more than thinly disguised propaganda.  After all, if you were the owner of national television channels and you just happened to be elected to the position of Prime Minister, you would probably feel tempted to tinker just a little to ensure that your television channels showed you in a good light, now wouldn’t you?  Only natural really.

IPTV is not DTV?

When we moved in to our current apartment we were a little surprised to find that there was no centralized television aerial.  Most apartment blocks in Italy have them, but not all.  Yes, I know we should have checked more carefully, but we saw a cable, and assumed it was OK.  It was not.

No aerial, no problem, we thought, as we knew that the Fastweb internet provider offered a television service as part of one of its connection packages.

One shiny little box of tricks later, and we had all the usual television channels plus a few other goodies too.  That was a few years ago, and the cable television on offer then was a little basic.  Now, it is much better.

We thought what we had was digital television, but no, despite the television signal being transmitted via snazzy optical fibre cable, what we had was not digital TV.

What we have had for all these years is IPTV – Internet Protocol television, and IPTV, even though it sounds digital, it is obviously not digital enough.

To get real ‘digital television’, we would need a little decoder, plus a connection to an external television antenna.

Actually, Italy’s digital TV is not 100% digital as the signal is being transmitted via antennas, just like the old analogue signals.  This means that signal quality will not always be excellent, which contradicts what the politicians have been saying in their attempts to convince everyone that DTV is a good thing.

IPTV is DTV!

For me, digital television is not really that digital if it cannot be transmitted digitally.  Like IPTV.

Or am I just being nitpicky?  Or did someone who runs Italy quite like the idea of taking the RAI channels off air for a while?  Then at least pesky programs such as AnnoZero and Report would not be seen by so many people.  Nooo, perish the thought.

Nobody would be that Machiavellian, now would they?

I’ve yet to understand just why politicians are so keen on getting everybody over to so-called digital television.

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I’m Missing the Lunigiana: A Statue Picture

Monday, February 1st, 2010 - by - No Comments

statue in Bocca di Magra, ItalyI’m on my way soon to Palm Springs. It’s a way to escape winter and visit with my mother and brother. It’s not the same as being in Italy.

The statue over to the right is one I recently discovered in the town of Bocca di Magra, the mouth of the Magra river. I’ve heard that Italy’s famous writers met here. It’s a great place to go to eat seafood—or fish for it.

The statue is interesting because its form mimics the stele statues you find in the museum in Pontremoli (which is inside a castle you should visit). The statue is of a woman who seems to have come out of the sea with friends at her feet. The “friends” are like the local critters they cook up and serve to you in the nearby restaurant which overlooks the yacht harbor.

Darn, I miss that.

 
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