Now let's begin our flood of Italian recipes with pasta. Obviously (^_-)/°

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Etruscan civilization born in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, and was called Tusci or Etrusci by Romans. As distinguished by its unique language, this civilization endured until its assimilation into the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. At its maximum extent it flourished in three confederacies of cities: Etruria, Po valley and ( Read more... )

Articles. Aaaaah... Like I said, everything is male or female. Our penna (pen) is a female. Tavolo (table) is male noun. The is the definite article in English. In Italian...
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Before we start talking about articles, verbs, names, and so on, we need to make clear a thing: every noun in Italian is male or female.
You really should know if a word is male or female before you can say something about it. "this is a pen", like England said to Japan! XD
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Pastaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! If you are an Hetalia fan and never tried pasta, you should be ashamed of yourself. Pasta is quite common all over the world: it's easy to make, it's good, it can be flavored with so many things you will never guess. In some places in Europe they serve it even with marmalade, someone told me. Blasphemy! (>_<)” It's ( Read more... )

Note: so much of it is copied and adapted from Wikipedia. Shame on me. Strange words can be Google Translate's fault.

Italic people
The first inhabitants of Italy, perhaps coming from a migration started from Apulia around 37.000 years ago, moved across the peninsula, establishing themselves in small settlements far from each one. Around 12,000 years ( Read more... )

Tomatoes was imported in Europe in 1540 by Cortés. How did we made before that? °_° Well, I don't know too much about the history of Italian cuisine. I'll do some research when I have the time. But I know Italians have a different way to eat from the rest of the world. We are really strange. We do not make a huge breakfast, and the basic meal is ( Read more... )

First lesson! OMG. I'm a bit nervous.
Let's begin with the "abc", literally. Italian uses the basic occidental alphabet like in English, but without the letters J, K, W, X, Y (that are used for foreign words or some proper name). We have two types of accent. Since this is a basic guide, I will not be too stubborn about it. Let's say all you need is ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! ^o^ I'm Aeris, a big Hetalia-Italian-Fan even since before it became an anime. I joined this community long time ago, but for so many reasons never actually posted anything. But now I decided to start a blog, in which I'll talk to you about Italy.
Some foreign friends I have known thanks to Hetalia keep asking me so many questions! ~_ ( Read more... )