Sunday, August 29, 2010

About Italian Food: The Season is Starting!

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From Kyle Phillips, your Guide to Italian Food
Soccer, that is, and tonight I'll be going to see Fiorentina-Napoli at the stadium. The first time I've been to a game in years, and I'm looking forward to it.

The other season that's beginning is the grape harvest, and here the news is less good. Quality is good to excellent, and that is of course nice. However, because of the economy there is a lot of unsold wine already in the cellars, and the wholesale price of grapes has collapsed. If things don't pick up, the situation could get much worse.

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Wine, Water, Coffe, and so on: Drink, in short.
It's very difficult to approach food without touching on drink -- they're two faces of a coin, so to speak, and one naturally leads to the other: Italian food without water or wine doesn't seem quite right, and then there's the coffee, and... You get the picture.

 


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