Bauerngarten: the essence of South Tyrol in a few square metres

In South Tyrol, people usually stop to admire the small plot of cultivated land next to a house. Between a typical green garden and a garden, they are a sort of urban green gardens where, next to sunflowers, marigolds, coneflowers and roses, you can admire heads of lettuce – so perfect that your mouth starts to water – and several varieties of seasonal vegetables.

DI ILARIA PERSELLO

Not everyone knows that UNESCO in 2011 declared the 30th of April the International Jazz Day to celebrate such a renowned musical genre and its ability to unite people all over the world. Listening to jazz music is a more suggestive experience if accompanied by good food.

DI FRANCO BANCHI

The protein-based diet of the mycenaean heroes. Red meat and game for Achilles, Odyssey and Agamemnon.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the oldest poems of Western literature. They were written in the dark centuries following the disappearance of the Mycenaean kingdoms (XII-XI centuries B.C.) and put into words in the VIII century when the Greeks started using the phonetic alphabet, a more archaic form than the one used in the classic age. They called those characters foinikà because they had taken them from the Phoenician alphabet.

ANNA CAFISSI

New Atlantis is an unfinished utopian novel by Francis Bacon, written in 1624 and posthumously published in 1627. Bacon tells the story of a group of 51 travellers who depart from Peru and are directed to Asia but shipwreck on the island of Bensalem in the Southern Sea. The name of the island comes from the union of Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

FRANCO BANCHI

Inside Palazzo Medici in Florence: all the secrets of coffee and wine

Last January, Palazzo Medici housed two conferences on the secrets of coffee and wine organised by the Associazione Consonanze and the online journal Dichecibo6?Magazine, with the patronage of the City of Florence. These encounters were hosted by Dr Nicoletta Arbusti, psychologist and president of the association, and introduced by Prof. Franco Banchi, journalist, writer and editor of the magazine.

ILARIA PERSELLO

Napoleon Bonaparte – l’Empereur at the table

Louis-Constant Wairy (1778 – 1845) primo valletto di camera di Napoleone Bonaparte, nei suoi “Memoires de Constant, premier valet de chambre de l’empereur, sur la vie privée de Napoleon, sa famille et sa cour ” (1), scrive che Napoleone preferiva cenare da solo, velocemente e senza neppure la tovaglia, raramente un suo pasto superava i dieci minuti.

NICOLETTA ARBUSTI