Some time ago she did coming out.  She has been suffering from diabetes for three years.
Why hasn’t she say anything  before?
Obvious. She just had to look for sponsors to continue her television program.
And then she turned her illness into business. Everything is business. Everything for money.

Probably her son  will create his own business empire on the “misfortune” of his mother by offering healthy foods.

Moral? It is not gold all that glitters …

Beware of those who have experienced sponsors.  They  can not be free to say and do what they  know or believe to be more correct and healthier about food.
It’s the death of freedom!

We really wanted to think about that with you, our readers.
Our site does not and will never have any sponsor.
Be sure. You’ll never read we are  glorifying a food or an industrial product that does not convince us or we  know it is not healthy.
It’s true that our site contains advertising but it is advertising that we do not control and that doesn’t  control us. On the other hand we must earn at least to recoup the costs.

We are and always will be free to communicate honestly with  our readers.

Carlo & Loretta

Panettone with fresh yeast

I’ve just had one of the greatest satisfaction in my life and  want to share it with you.

I have noticed in the last days that some visitors have come to our panettone page in Italian from an American blog.
Well, today I decided to visit this blog and my surprise was great!

First of all its name: Little Homestead in the Desert

The young writer tells she found our panettone recipe and our video last year. She also tells she has  the habit to look for Italian recipes in Italian to find real recipes.

Well, her first attempt wasn’t successful. She made the mistake most people do: non to follow my steps accurately. But the second attempt was so successful that her neighbor who was pastry chef and worked for Martha  was very impressed and liked it.
Read her page (homemade panettone)  for more details.

This year she published her own recipe (homemade panettone, a little bit of Italy in your kitchen) whose doses and ingredients are very similar to mine. The only difference is that she has substituted candied fruit  with orange extract of liquor.

This is the real sign my recipe works and works well if a woman who doesn’t speak Italian has understood well the recipe written in Italian looking at  our video, in Italian too.

But if you want not to make a great effort I remember  you this year we have published the real Italian panettone  recipe in English. Test it and let me know your result!

I created another panettone recipe made with felt flour. All its ingredients are organic. Fantastic!

Greetings from Italy

Loretta

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The answer is simple. The Italian society is multifaceted. At present there are those who can afford (but is it really a luxury?)  to buy truffles and those who are looking for tips to spend as little as possible. I don’t know how it is the matter outside Italy.
Anyway I think it’s fair to speak of both things.  And then this is exactly my photograph at this time. Suspended as I am between the impulse  not to consume too much and, on the contrary,  buy something special, but parsimoniously. Otherwise, what Christmas might be?

But I was talking about truffles …
Truffles can be a great Christmas gift idea.
The truffle is a unique ingredient to flavor meat or fish. So at Christmas you can buy a simple  rabbit and then make it a superlative dish simply by adding a sprinkling of black truffle. You need very little black truffle.
Even a simple spaghetti dish can get into a Christmas dish simply by adding  this ingredient.

Another idea?  polenta slices with a quail egg on the top,

Polenta slices with quail eggs and black truffles on the top

garnished with truffle slices.
A delicious but low cost dish for your Christmas menu or a celebration menu all year round. All tricks  I learnt in my long stay in Spoleto.  To make these delicacies  you don’t need  a lot of truffles.
And then the truffle, I’m talking about the black truffle of course, has another great merit. You can choose between the summer variety, less intense but more economical and affordable, and the winter variety, very fragrant, but much less economic.
Truffles for all budgets!

And now some recommendations.
Let’s start with our page dedicated to black truffle in which you can find many curiosities and  recipes, including those, very simple, to make spaghetti with black truffles as I learnt in Spoleto.
And then the site from which I usually buy truffles. Urbani Truffles. The company is well known and doesn’t  need  my  advertising, of course. But I’m talking about it  because I knew the company and used  its products  when  I lived in Umbria and secondly because I generally buy black truffles on this website.
Besides I found very interesting the new organic line. For example  the vegetable sauce with truffles. It’s a pity the company  doesn’t still  sell it online but it ‘s easy to find its products outside Italy.  I’m going to  publish a recipe with this exclusive product. Ideal for celebration menu.

Greetings from Italy

Loretta

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I think  it’s a great idea!
In “How it works” there is the full plan.

1. Add toys   to your wishlist
2. Toys are delivered to your door
3. Keep the toys for 30 days or more
4. Return the toys and get a new shipment …How does it cost? only 24.99$ every 4 toys.

   What about this idea?I think the necessity sharpens the wit. I don’t know how to translate our Italian phrase “la necessità aguzza l’ingegno” …

   There are a lot of opportunities around the world to save money. It’s enough to “open well our eyes and ears”.
   Thanks to Internet we can plan a great Christmas despite everything
   Do you agree?

   Greetings from Italy

   Loretta

Shopping online - The Italian Taste's tips

There is  a real shop  in Milan
6 Via Vittor Pisani, Milan
Tel.   +39 (0)2.36504189
Fax +39 (0)2.36504194

and its virtual shop

http://www.dbliving.com/uk/

It’s full of creative gift ideas.

You can find the famous Fantozzi’s armchair here!

You can find it on the home page and then?

Look at Designer Puppets

Nice. isn’t it?

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta