... and we are celebrating with some pasta lovers!

Yesterday it was really exciting to listen the news about the international cultural patrimony being enriched by our mediterranean diet. 

It's not just question of having something great in a country: this is more about being recognized for all our traditions. From the way to grow good products, cook them, combine them and live following the nature and what the territory offers to us. This is our history!

So I decided to celebrate this day, sharing with you a very interesting reality that I have just discovered some days ago: Presto Pasta Nights.

In 2007 Ruth decided to organize a round up of pasta dishes every week. She started just with 8 pictures of pasta dishes cooked by readers of the blog.

Last week it was the round up number 189. It was hosted by another blogger, Helen from fussfreeflavours and lots of people are now sending pictures and recipes: in the last post there were more than 20 pictures from all over the world and cooked in the most different ways: there were home made pasta dishes, pasta with clams and chickpeas, traditional recipes or absolutely unusual, but there were also noddles and cous cous.

I particularly like the fact that all these people in love with pasta could come together every week to post their dishes and recipes, exchanging ideas and getting to know new ways to cook and new ingredients too. These are passionate food lovers!

What is better than this international group to celebrate the now international mediterranean diet and one of its main elements? Next time I will send my dish too and I hope to host this nice round up soon! I will see you there too?

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How to control your weight being happy

Have you heard someone speaking about the Fashion Week lately? Yes ok it's everywhere and lots of events are popping up here and there especially in London! So why we are speaking about it here too? Just because like every year this events won't just bring attention to the fashion world and the glamour, but to the beauty, and the models too of course! Thin? too thin? Starving size zero? Is this something to show to the teenagers? Is this a good example to give to people? Is this the beauty?

Let me share a secret with you: everyone can be fat or thin how much he/she wants, and the designers can use all the type of models they want, but the reality is that we all need to learn how to eat not how to diet and what is healthy and good for our body, what it make us happier or not.

In Italy too everyone is always speaking about diet, but the reality is that we have less junk food, we eat more at home and we have a great variety of products and a big culinary history. The famous Mediterranean Diet comes exactly from this: "it’s a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of poor coastal regions of southern Italy, Crete, and Greece in the 1960's” (Wikipedia).  The principal aspects of this diet include high olive oil consumption, high consumption of legumes, high consumption of unrefined cereals, high consumption of fruits, high consumption of vegetables, moderate consumption of dairy products (mostly as cheese and yogurt), moderate to high consumption of fish, low consumption of meat and meat products, and moderate wine consumption.

 On top of that, everyone in Italy is more or less able to cook a plate of pasta and it’s just this that can save your line. Do you want something quick and easy, something that can fulfill you being healthy? Pasta is the best answer always. And the pasta in the right dose and cooked at home with a light sauce can be the secret of each diet and size control, giving you all the energy and beauty and even the concentration you want and need!

And because I know this is also the time of the year where after holiday everyone try to lose the pounds collected in the summer, here is the tip for you to follow: eat complex carbs ( like pasta and bread ) to control your weight and enjoy eating!

Why do you think the Mediterranean diet has been proposed to be part of the Unesco's list of "intangible" cultural heritage?

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