"La mia citta` Bologna e´ i nostri gusti
by Heidi K.
Historical Bologna
The word “baguette” literally means “wand” in French. It refers to a magician’s wand or a musical conductor’s baton. There is no “official” definition, but generally a baguette will fit into this description: a long thin bread with a crisp crust weighing approximately 9 ounces (250 grams) with a length of approximately 27 inches (70cm) and a width of approximately 2.5 inches (6cm). Baguettes are baked daily and are available in any bakery.
Or in the abscence of Baquette's a simple warm toast is always good...
Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. This browning reaction is known as the Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread and makes it firmer, so it holds toppings more securely. Toasting is a common method of making stale bread more palatable.
Il Bacio Perugina è un cioccolatino dalla forma irregolare e tondeggiante, farcito con gianduia, granella di nocciola e ricoperto dicioccolato fondente. È prodotto dalla Perugina.
La presentazione ed il confezionamento del prodotto sono opera di Federico Seneca, direttore artistico della Perugina negli anni ’20, che rielaborando l'immagine del quadro di Francesco Hayez Il bacio, creò la tipica scatola blu con l'immagine di due innamorati. Fu sempre sua l'idea di inserire i cartigli contenenti le frasi d'amore che ancora oggi caratterizzano lo storico cioccolatino. WEB: http://www.baciperugina.it
"Chi ama, Baci"
Con il termine caffettiera si individuano sia l'attrezzo con cui si prepara il caffè sia il recipiente adatto a servirlo. Per la preparazione del caffè esistono tipologie differenti di caffettiere, a seconda che il caffè sia espresso, infuso o infuso e filtrato.
This is what I should have shown to Tomas when he asked about making Moka coffee: 
And with coffee as good as that, why not make a chocolate-chip-cookies & coffee date at 7 o'clock in the morning before heading to work/school....
Or spare ourselves time in the night by grabbing along a pizza from your favorite ristorante.
Peperoncini (or pepperoncini), common names Tuscan peppers, sweet Italian peppers, golden Greek peppers and Kyle peppers, are a variety of the species Capsicum annuum. While called peperoncini in American English, in Italy these particular kind of peppers are called friggitello (plural friggitelli) or more generally peperone (plural peperoni) like other sweet varieties of peppers, while the term peperoncini(singular peperoncino) is used for hotter varieties of chili peppers.[1] The Greek varieties are sweeter and less bitter than the Italian varieties grown in Tuscany. Peperoncini are mild with a slight heat and a hint of bitterness, and are commonly pickled and sold packaged in jars.
My favorite place to buy my food is il mercato:
And finally:
Motor Show in Bologna, where I got to work for a day:
INSPIRATIONS SOURCES:
Kelvin Wu Blog
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams (which I'm reading right now besides philosophy, jazz & economy)
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."Wikipedia
