Fast food versus Slow Food, but let's not blame everything on Mc. Donald!

This is the English version of the article published on May 25th 2014 by Alessandria News This post comes from the exchanges I had with one of the newspaper’s readers. He said he could not show respect for a country that erected Mc. Donald as a symbol. Aside from the fact that the statement offends me for the amount of ignorance toward my hosts,...

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Living music in USA

MILWAUKEE - I'm from Alessandria, Piedmont. With about 100 thousand inhabitants, it’s the provincial capital. I left at the end of the nineties, but if I'm not mistaken, things, at least with regard to culture and the possibilities to access it, have not improved at all. If anything, the opposite has happened. The residents of Alessandria have not...

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Why a blog in English

Hello! I have been writing weekly articles for an online newspaper of my Italian's hometown since last October, then last February I decided to begin a blog in my native language: Italian. The blog is titled : Un'Alessandrina in America, since my hometown's name is Alessandria in the Italian region of Piemonte. The blog is a collection of all the articles I wrote for the newspaper, and , in addition, of posts about my life in the USA, as a mother, a teacher and most of all a curious human being! Writing in Italian is easy for me, not so much in...

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Learning Italian in the USA

This article was written originally in Italian for the online newspaper ”Alessandria NEWS” with which I collaborate. Every week I talk about various aspects of life in the USA and I thought important to explore the reasons why American students keep choosing to study Italian in college. This is what I found out firsthand from my Marquette students. Why Study Italian in the U.S.? As many of you already know, I teach Italian language and culture at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I have always been curious to know the reasons why  ...

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