Airport-Check
by Terry Spehar-Fahey • May 19, 2013 • 0 Comments
At LAX (Amber, Jesse and Bryan are still to join us!).
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What We Won’t See in Venice….
by Dru Pagliassotti • May 16, 2013 • 1 Comment
Last week Venice finally removed the controversial “Boy with Frog” statue by Charles Ray that had been standing on the Punta della Dogana since 2009. The city will be replacing it with a replica of the lamppost that used to stand there. This is the photo I took of the statue on our last...
Read more →Manet and Titian at the Ducal Palace
by Terry Spehar-Fahey • May 9, 2013 • 1 Comment
I have just discovered a fantastic opportunity for art lovers in Venice! The Doges’ Palace has an exhibit of the paintings of Edouard Manet that will be on while we are visiting the city with Imagining Venice. I have linked a blog to our blogroll that shows Manet’s painting Olympia side-by-side with the inspiration for...
Read more →Venetian Food
by Amber Rocha • May 1, 2013 • 1 Comment
The biggest association most people commonly make when they think of Italy is delicious food. Lasagna, spaghetti, pesto and fettuccine are widely known as Italian food. What a lot of people do not know, however, is that food in Italy differs from region to region. The Tuscan cuisine is known for its simplicity while the Bologna region is know for its delicious, rich lasagne or tortellini. One of the most interesting regional cuisines in Italy is that of Venice. Most of the typical Venetian seasonings found in the cuisine are butter, olive oil, sunflower oil, vinegar, kren, senape, mostarda, and salsa verde. The Venetian cuisine itself is divided into three different categories, depending on geography. Each one has its own many different local cuisines.
Coastal areas: The coastal areas mainly serve seafood dishes.
Plains: In the plains, grilled meat is mainly served, usually mixed with polenta, potatoes or vegetables. Risotto, which is a rice dish cooked with everything from pumpkin to seafood or meat, is also very popular. Bigoli, fettuccine, ravioli, and totelli are hand-made pasta dishes that are commonly eaten.
Mountain areas: The mountain areas mainly serve dishes made of pork or game meat with polenta, mushrooms, or cheese. There is also some Austrian or Tyrolese influences such as canederli or strudel.
According to walksofitaly.com, some of the foods you must during your time in Venice include Sardee in saor which features sweet and sour sardines with onions, pine nuts and raisins. Another is Pasta e fasioi which is just pasta and beans.
Sardee in saor:
All in all, Italian food in general is delicious but take advantage of the fact that we are visiting Venice and the variety of delicious meals found there.
Works Cited
“The Best Foods of Venice and the Veneto.” Walks of Italy The Travel Blog. Walks of Italy, 12 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Apr. 2013.
“Venice Recipes and Curiosities from the Venetian Cuisine.” Venice Recipes and Curiosities from the Venetian Cuisine. Venice Explorer, 18 June 2010. Web. 01 May 2013.
Venetian Artillery and Ship Building
by Jesse Coon • May 1, 2013 • 0 Comments
Being that Venice is a lagoon surrounded by water the Venetian people were quick to find a way to protect themselves against enemy invasions. They quickly became the strongest naval force in the region as well as the most skilled. Because they were so skilled in navigating the waters this allowed them to become...
Read more →Across the River and Into the Trees
by Amber Rocha • April 21, 2013 • 1 Comment
Venice is known as many things. Some say it is a militant city. Some say it is decadent. Some say it is dying. In Across the River and Into the Trees, the city of Venice is a symbol for immortality, which is something Colonel Cantwell, the book’s main character, searches for throughout the entire...
Read more →The Aspern Papers
by Gustavo Youngberg • April 21, 2013 • 0 Comments
Venice in The Aspern Papers Venice, Italy. A city known for its extravagant art and culture, has been written about and placed in hundreds if not thousands of publications for hundreds of years. In the Aspern Papers, written by Henry James, we find a story set in Venice of an American biographer who is...
Read more →An Exploration of Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, 1925)
by Sam Theis • April 19, 2013 • 0 Comments
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann is a classic novella that has been regarded as one of the finest of his literary works. First published in 1925, the author uses narrative to follow the last few years of a fictional character named Gustav von Aschenbach as he struggles to make sense of a variety...
Read more →“Why Venice? A book report on The Merchant of Venice”
by Camille Adair • April 19, 2013
Dated as far back as 1596, The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy, and is one of William Shakespeare’s most renowned plays and is still popular to this day. However, one might beg the question, why Venice? By studying the history of Venice and what was going on there at the time, one...
Read more →Daughter of Venice
by Leah Griffith • April 18, 2013
My book, Daughter of Venice, by Donna Jo Napoli takes place in the year 1592 and is a fictional story about Donata, a fourteen-year-old girl born to a noble family in Venice. Donata lives in her family’s palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal with eleven brothers and sisters. Although she lives a life of wealthy...
Read more →The Glassblower of Murano
by Chloe Vieira • April 18, 2013
Thesis The most important symbolic role that the city of Venice plays in The Glassblower of Murano is that of the continual cycle of birth and death. The protagonist is drawn to Venice because of her ancestry there, and at that point the city is a mysterious place of origin to which she...
Read more →The Midwife of Venice- Book Report
by Jenna Hartmann • April 17, 2013
I read the novel The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich, which she published in 2011. This novel mainly took place in the city of Venice, Italy, primarily in the Ghetto Nuovo and along the Grand Canal. A few chapters of the book also took place in Valletta, Malta. This story captured my attention...
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