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 Morra Italian Throwing Fingers Game Oldest game in the world * Morra is a hand game that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times. Each player simultaneously reveals their hand, extending any number of fingers, and calls out a number. Any player who successfully guesses the total number of fingers revealed by all players […]

  Italian Card Game Seven & a Half  Sette Mezzo    This is the game we used to play on New Years Eve with all the family as we waited for the ball to drop.  Do you remember or did your family ever play this game? It is actually a version of black jack that […]

Sanguinacci0 Traditional Calabrese Recipe * Sanguinaccio… All over the world there is a version of this. Back in the day when animals were slaughtered they used everything. In this case it is the blood. I remember my mother telling me about Sanguinoccia when I was a kid. Then as I got older I actually had […]

Andrea Bocelli – Besame Mucho   *   Recorded at Lake Las Vegas Resort. “Under The Desert Sky” (2006) – CD (DVD Included) Guitarist -Ramon Stagnaro (Peru), Pianist – David Foster LYRICS: (Consuelo Velazquez)       According to Velázquez herself, she wrote this song even though she had never been kissed yet at the time, […]

Italy Crazy Italian Drivers Part One OMG * Italian drivers don’t have a monopoly on bad driving but they sure do drive crazy. This video is unbelievable but true.  Recently I drove from Rome to Calabria. Fairly straight drive you might think but it was an adventure.        First of all I stopped […]

Italy The Healthiest Country in the World * When it comes to living a long life, Italy is the place to be. The high-heeled boot surrounded by five seas is ranked the healthiest country on Earth in the Bloomberg Global Health Indexof 163 countries.     A baby born in Italy can expect to live to be […]

Scapricciatiello Jimmy Roselli  * Scapricciatiello sung by Jimmy Roselli was a very popular Neopolitan song from back in the day.  Jimmy Roselli was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He had success with the song “Mala Femmena”, which sold over three million records in 1963. It never was a hit song for him, but is considered […]

Sophia Loren 15 Things you didn’t know about Sophia Loren   Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on 20 September 1934 in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy. She was the daughter of Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer of noble descent (Loren wrote in her autobiography that she is entitled to call […]

Mortadella  Our Favorite Sandwich OMG Mortadella is a large Italian sausage or luncheon meat  made of finely hashed or ground, heat-cured pork, which incorporates at least 15% small cubes of pork fat (principally the hard fat from the neck of the pig). Mortadella is a product of Bologna, Italy. It is flavoured with spices, including whole or ground black pepper, myrtle berries, and pistachios. […]

Eggs in Purgatory Wonderful Recipe from the Past Laura Vitale   * When I was much younger my mom used to make something where the rendered tomatoes filled the deep dish frying pan and then she broke eggs into the middle of the tomatoes.      It was something that she  would often make for […]