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Title: Italian life in town and country
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Villari, Luigi, 1876-
Subjects: Italy -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ienza andthe lake region are famous. Another most important feature of home life isfood and drink. Italians of the upper and middleclasses never eat more than two real meals a day.For breakfast they have a cup of coffee and milk,with sometimes a piece of bread and butter, gen-erally taken in bed. In many parts of the countrybutter and milk are difficult to get, so that duringthe villeggiatura the morning meal is reduced toblack coffee and dry bread. The luncheon hourvaries from ten to twelve, and the meal is a moreelaborate one than its English counterpart. Firstcomes a dish of eggs, or else maccaroni or someother variety of paste asciutte (of the maccaronifamily). Then follows meat—stewed, roast, orboiled. The latter, called Icsso, is a speciality ofItalian cookery, and, when properly done, is veryappetising, Often there is a fritto misto as well—a mixture of fried vegetables, bits of chicken,sweetbread, etc. Then comes a dish of vege-tables, in which department Italian cooks are
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u z UJ o CO I- u a.H05 Z < Home Life and Women 115 masters. Cheese and fruit end the repast. Wine(generally red) is drunk throughout. After lunch-eon there is always an interval of rest before workand other occupations are resumed. In the hotweather it develops into a siesta. No afternoontea is taken in purely Italian houses, but wherethe foreign element is strong the five oclock is common, and the habit is spreading everywhereamong the upper classes. In the country sweetwine and biscuits take its place. Many Italiansstill look upon tea as a medicine, while others tellyou they cannot take it as it is bad for their diges-tion. Smoking is very usual among both sexesin the upper classes, but limited to the men inthe middle and lower classes. The dinner hourvaries from five to seven. In the country it isoften in the middle of the day. It is not unlikean English dinner as regards the arrangementand sequence of the dishes, but, of course, thecooking is different. In purely Itali

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