It was the first day of school today for my daughter who was starting Junior High School and this American Mom got it all wrong. On the school website it said that the kids were supposed to be there between 9 and 9:40. At 9:10 I was driving to school and the cell phone rang …
La mozzarella è probabilmente la squisitezza italiana più famosa e rappresentativa. Una volta, una mia amica mamma mi ha spiegato che era preoccupata di far crescere i figli come delle mozzarelle. Tanti americani credono che la mozzarella sia quella macchia gialla e gommosa sulla pizza al formaggio. Ovviamente non è così. La vera mozzarella …
Probably the most popular and symbolic Italian delicacy is the mozzarella. A mamma friend once explained to me that she was worried she was raising her children to be mozzarellas. A lot of Americans think of mozzarella as that yellowy, gooey glop on the top of a cheese pizza. That doesn’t count. Real Italian mozzarella …
Quando avevo vent’anni ero convinta che sarei diventata una famosa inviata televisiva in Asia. Ho cominciato bene, trascorrendo un anno a seguire gli sconvolgimenti politici nelle Filippine. Poi ho vinto una borsa di studio per un master in Studi sul Sud-est asiatico alla Columbia University di New York. Il primo giorno, esattamente il primo giorno …
When I was 20, I was convinced I would become a well-known television correspondent in Asia. I started out well, spending a year covering political upheavals in the Philippines, and then I won a scholarship to get a Masters Degree in South East Asian Studies at Columbia University in New York. The first day, the …