“The Grand Canal”
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (1697 – 1768)
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Month: December 2010
Citazione del Giorno
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
— Pope John XXIII (1881 -1963)
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Arte
“Rapsel Il Bagno che non c’è”
Matteo Thun (born 1952)
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Citazione del Giorno
“Massenet feels it as a Frenchman, with powder and minuets. I shall feel it as an Italian, with desperate passion.”
— Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858 – 1924)
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“Music-Making Angel”
Melozzo da Forlì (1438 – 1494)
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Citazione del Giorno
“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”
— Gianni Versace (1946 – 1997)
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What to Drink with What You Eat
James Beard Award winners Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page have released an iPhone app that conveniently places all of the food and drink pairing information from their book What to Drink with What You Eat at your fingertips.
This clever app delivers when you need it: at the restaurant, the wine store, or the food market. Information for the application is from their acclaimed book — which is currently listed as Amazon’s #1 “Most Wished For” wine book and was also named the Georges Duboeuf “Wine Book of the Year”.
The app allows you to search by either Food or Drink to find an ideal pairing:
In the Food section, you can either search by typing what you’re looking for in the top bar, or scroll down an alphabetical list of hundreds of categories:
Click a desired category and the app returns a list of optimal beverages that enhance the flavor of the food you’ll be eating. You can do the same in reverse — search by Drink to retrieve compatible foods that will enhance whatever is in your glass:
It’s a great deal at only $2.99. Check it out at the iTunes store.
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Not an iPhone user? You can always buy the book!
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“Head of a Faun in a Concave Roundel”
Agostino Carracci (1557 – 1602)
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Citazione del Giorno
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
— Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564)
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Amazon Extends Free Shipping Deadline for Christmas
Sunday is the last day for free Super Saver shipping from Amazon in order for merchandise to arrive by Christmas. For Amazon Prime members, the deadline for free two-day shipping isn’t until next Wednesday.
Today’s Black Friday deals are here.
Looking for gift ideas? Check out our Italian Marketplace by clicking the link above or here.
Of course, if you run out of time there’s always the Gift Card option. You can even email them — on Christmas Day!
Happy shopping.
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