Category: Food

I don’t have a large sampling of Bologna pizza. Like almost all of the pizzas that I have eaten there they follow the thin crust, light on toppings and wood-fired oven model. There was a simple little pizzeria near where we were living on Santo Stefano so it was really convenient to pop over there […]

Since the lovely K and I have an apartment I would love to have had friends over for lunch or dinner but there are too many friends and not enough time so we decided to have a party. The original plan was for Friday, May 29 but I found from one friend that it would […]

On alternating weekends Karen has a Saturday trip with the school to some nearby town. This is good not only for travel but also for more exposure and practice with Italian. The first weekend of her school she went to Ravenna to see the famous byzantine mosaics. So the next weekend we decided to take […]

First there is Vittorio. I met him the first time I came to Bologna and this is my 6th visit. I can almost always find him at around 2:00 PM  seated in front of the “Irish” pub not far from the twin towers along via Zamboni. I have joked with him that he must have […]