Bread, Pane

Bread, Pane

“Vorrei il Pugliese, per favore.” I eye the customer in front of me with quiet dread. Margarita, the baker’s wife, turns around and pulls the last one-and-a-half-kilo loaf from the shelf. She places it carefully on the wooden board next to the scale. “Tutto?” Does she...
Il Forno – The Bread Oven

Il Forno – The Bread Oven

We’ve bought a forno. Or rather, we’ve bought a house with a forno. Again. Our first house in Italy came with a forno too. A forno is a stone building, about three metres by three, with a gabled roof usually overgrown with weeds and grass. There’s sometimes still an...
Fognatura, in the (cess)pit 4 and last.

Fognatura, in the (cess)pit 4 and last.

Manutenzione – Maintenance   Previously on: The mayor has promised to visit for an assessment of the ‘entire’ drainage problem in our borgo, but Giorgio’s septic tank is still leaking.   It’s been three weeks since the consiglio with the mayor and his grand promise to...