Anny,
Thanks for the line "they were chasing with their pieces of bread the
moving bits". Hope you wouldn't mind if I incorporate it into a text on
food I may write in the near future?
Otherwise, here's info on the films being presented by Italy within the
European Union Film Showcase now occurring at AFI in Silver Spring. "Il
Caimano" was impressive, though can you translate the title into English?
The Caiman (Il Caimano)
Official selection, 2006 Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals
Moretti's wicked satire won six David de Donatello awards, including Best
Picture. Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie
producer Silvio Orlando is finding it impossible to raise money for his
latest project, "The Return of Christopher Columbus". A young director
gives him a script that he initially takes for a half-hearted thriller, but
upon more careful reading, he realizes the subject is prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi.
DIR/SCR/PROD Nanni Moretti; SCR Heidrun Schleef, Francesco Piccolo and
Federica Pontremoli; PROD Angelo Barbagallo. Italy/France, 2006, color, 112
min. In Italian with English subtitles.
&
My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio Fratello e figlio unico)
Official Selection, 2007 Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals
The contrasting lives of two brothers - one fascist, one communist, but in
love with the same girl - provide narrative fuel for this finely honed
portrait of Italian society in the turbulent sixties and seventies.
DIR/SCR Daniele Luchetti; SCR Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli, based on
the novel Il Fasciocomunista by Antonio Pennacchi; PROD Marco Chimenz,
Giovanni Stabilini and Riccardo Tozzi. Italy/France, 2007, color, 100 min.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Have either of these films screened in Bolzano? What food is available at
Italian movie theatres? I assume Casu Frazigu isn't.
Barry
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:11:26 +0100, Anny Ballardini
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi Barry,
>
>luckily I never did. When I was small and did not want to eat, I asked for
a
>microscope I never received because adults said that if I could see what
was
>in the food I wouldn't have eaten the little I did. And I remember someone
>told me of some similar cheese (that they were chasing with their pieces of
>bread the moving bits...) but I thought it was an invention to tease
>and scare me even more...
>
>Say cheese,
>Anny
>On Nov 10, 2007 3:58 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Cheese Mixed With Maggots Is a Fave
>> In Italy:
>>
>> Maggot Cheese
>> Casu Frazigu
>> Cost: $100 a pound
>>
>> During the aging process of "Rotten Cheese," a fly called Piophila casei
>> deposits its eggs on the cheese. When the maggots are born, they move
>> throughout the cheese, excreting enzymes that give it an overwhelmingly
>> pungent smell, a rotten taste, and a soft, creamy texture. The cheese is
>> served at weddings and other family gatherings.
>>
>>
>> Though I suppose I approach connoisseurship in cheese, I've never
>> encountered this variety & probably won't pay to do so. Have you?
>>
>> Barry
>>
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