A Volontà: Blog

1. Ten photographs of Da Mario, Campobasso

   November 11, 2020
   Erik Flatmo August 25, 2020

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2. Indigenous People’s Day

   October 12, 2020
   The nightshade tomato has become the lifeblood of Italian food all over the world; where would pizza ever be without it? Yet though it adapted so well to Italian soil and palates, the tomato is native to the Americas, and was first cultivated by its indigenous people. I grew up…

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3. Spagnapasseri - a Calabrese scarecrow

   September 29, 2020
   A spagnapasseri - a system to literally, in Calabrese dialect, “scare sparrows” - and other birds -off the fig trees in my aunt’s backyard in Long Island. Now is the time for figs to ripen, and the sparrows can’t stay away; following them, into the broken skin of the fruit,…

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