Italians say that a confused person doesn’t know which saint to pray to. The process of finding a saint to appeal to for protection will be easier come next week when the Vatican launches a catalog of saints. The International Guide to Saints features over 2,000 patron saints in prayer card form hailing from around [...]
Just got the first shipment from Cascina Cornale, a farmer’s coop based in Piedmont that delivers weekly to northern Italian regions, including Val d’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy and parts of Liguria, Tuscany and the Veneto. A friend of mine swears by it, otherwise it was the kind of good idea that given Italian execution would’ve stayed [...]
Italy’s Public Functions Minister Renato Brunetta, who outed slacker state employees, is now on a crusade to bring service with a smile to the Bel Paese. His strategy? Use emoticons, those little happy or unhappy faces used to show emotion in written or message form. “My dream is to have a system that allows emoticons [...]
