Cheese, please! It would seem undisputed, that cheese is part of the Italian table whether here in America, or in Italy. This delicious and healthy staple of the Italian-American diet, offers an abundance of ways in which we can use it. Growing up in Trieste, the capital of the region of Friul...

The news feed is truncated tonight because our email went out at 5am. Since then all the tips have come in via skype, or Dymphna found them herself. As a result, the proportion of American news is higher than usual… Thanks to C. Cantoni, Holger Danske, Insubria, TB, Ted Ekeroth, and all the other ...

Some interesting tidbits have emerged from the Davos summit. One is a report that the economic crisis has already destroyed about 40% of the world’s wealth, and the destruction is not done yet. Also, the possibility was raised that a run on the dollar will be triggered when China begins exchanging...

At an emergency UN Security Council meeting, the Arab League pushed for a resolution requiring an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza, but the UK and the USA have rejected the idea. Meanwhile, a senior Hamas leader and much of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike. In other news, Front Page Magazine ...

There are interesting stories tonight about a conflict over a mosque in Bulgaria. Also, according to Stratfor, Ruthenia has declared independence from Ukraine and asks Moscow for support. It’s the Kosovo Effect, once again. A lasting legacy of the Bush administration. Thanks to ACT for America, Di...

The most interesting of tonight’s news articles concerns the “Facebook invasion� by zealous mujahideen. It has been my repeated contention that in the art of information warfare the enemy remains far ahead of us. This story is yet another example of that fact: while we excommunicate one anothe...

Lots of pirate news tonight. The pirates are living high on the hog with their ill-gotten gains, but the Indian navy just blew one of their ships out of the water. Also, the Saudis appear to be negotiating with the freebooters to try to get their supertanker back… Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, H...

Expounding further on a theme I began yesterday: Western culture is profoundly--and I think on several important bioethical issues. implacably--split about what is right and what is wrong. These issues range from abortion, to euthanasia, to embryonic stem cell research, to removing feeding tubes fro...

Dopo il grande afflusso di pubblico dell’edizione 2007, 10 mila presenze nei tre giorni di programmazione, anche quest’anno dal 18 al 20 settembre Trieste si appresta a diventare nuovamente la capitale della musica elettronica: l’Electroblog Festival è pronto ad invadere pacificamente il cent...

    I’ve wanted to venture there for years.  I’d spoken to friends who’d been.  I’d read books about it and visited the websites.  And what place is this, you ask?  This place, dear reader, is nothing less than the cutting edge of cookery, the Formula 1 of fine ...