The cheese saga: The scenic route

As I mentioned, Nino hinted that he had the cheese but wouldn’t give it to us unless we came for lunch. We would have gone anyway, but getting our hands on the cheese was an added incentive. If he didn’t have it, he would at least bring us to the guy at the Soverato market [...]

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Sant’Andrea’s 5 most common surnames

I think this is interesting. It’s from a site that provides demographic information about Italian towns.

 

 
The most common five family names in Sant’ Andrea Apostolo Dello Ionio:

There are in Sant’ Andrea Apostolo Dello Ionio
Surname

145.18
Codispoti

116.62
Sama`

97.58
Cosentino

80.92
Lijoi

71.40
Frustaci

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The cheese saga begins

This pecorino has a past.
In the late ’60s, Uncle Al, hoping that he could tame the odor, wrapped and rewrapped several round slabs Poppy had requested and stuffed them in a bag. The cheese went through Customs safely. His clothes that shared the bag, however, had to be thrown out. No matter how many times [...]

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Video trouble?

Some of you have said you’re having trouble viewing some of the videos, so I switched from using Google Video to YouTube in each of the posts.

Here’s also a playlist of the videos.

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Yes, we’re related to him, too

After Graziela gave us all the time she had available, she brought us up to meet the mayor, Maurizio Lijoi.
Maurizio took one look at the family tree and said, “I think we’re related.” Of course we are, I thought.
At first, I thought we might be connected through Nanny’s paternal grandmother, Maria Vittoria Lijoi, who [...]

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