Today is the Saint’s Day for Saint Biagio. I learnt about this because, apparently, in order to protect yourself from problems with your throat, one should eat some panettone from Christmas.
I had no idea that panettone that was rock-hard would be good for the throat as I’m sure, nor did you!
Having checked it out, he is, it seems, responsible for saving a girls life when she had a fish bone stuck in her throat. He touched her throat and the bone ‘melted away’. Hmm, the Queen Mum should have been eating the panettone and maybe she wouldn’t have had her problems with fish bones.
Personally, I suspect this was a way for Italian mothers to get their kids to eat old cake. Just a thought.
Well, like you guys in the UK, we had snow yesterday. Not as bad as earlier this year but still difficult. However, during the afternoon it turned to rain and now, most of the snow is gone, at least in the city.
Tonight we go out to our favourite Chinese restaurant (the Imperiale in Via Plinio) with friends and then, tomorrow night, I MUST start the hunt for a new place to live. In a strange way, I’m quite looking forward to it and, to be honest, I’ve never really liked the flat we live in that much.
Hi Andrew, it is panettone, with two “t”. And today you tasted the “chiacchiere”, typical sort of cake of this period.
You are going to move? I hope you’ll stay in Italy and in the company, or I have to think that something is going really bad.
If you wanna talk, you know how to catch me.
Thanks, Pietro. For my UK readers, chiacchiere is not really a cake. It’s a sort of biscuit thing. Difficult to describe but, from your viewpoint, definitely NOT a cake.
Yes but don’t worry. I very much hope to stay in Milan. Thanks for the offer anyway – no doubt you will talk to me tomorrow anyway as I guess this must have been a shock! See you tomorrow.
Oh yes, and thanks for the spelling correction, which I have now done, of course.