Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back "Polo!

Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me