As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
It's literally just a show that pops into kitchens all over Italy and talks to 90 year old women while they cheerily make hand-made pasta.
Worth checking out. It has 940,000 followers. (chef's kiss)
It's a handy show. We have made hand made pasta at home for many years and we periodically try a shape or type that we haven't done before. Often you can find one of the pasta grannies that makes a particular local type that gives good tips on how to make the shape better or do it faster. We're pretty good at a lot of these but I am amazed at how fast some of them can do these various shapes, perfectly and a lot of times without looking. We get it done, but these ladies are super efficient.
I've made several cousin connections using ancestry.com. With many of them we will simply exchange an email here and there on ancestry.com and compare some notes. I find that most people go to ancestry.com mainly to have a DNA test, an aren't that interested in building a family tree, making connect...
