Post your comment by clicking on Comment at the end of the posting. Please do not have: your name as a portal-link to a website, website links, or your email address included with your comments, or we will repost your comment with out any links. One of the first things we learned from our guide was that the engaging funicular song was written in Naples as an ad to get people to use it who were initially reluctant!
Another thing, dear to my heart, was the discovery that St. Genaro is patron Saint of Napoli dear to my heart because one of Elliot and my first dates was at the St. Genaro festival in NY which is held just down the Street from where we have lived since our marriage.
My friend Marlena told me that the sfogliatelli at the grand hotel on the breakfast buffet were fantastic, and she was right. I had a minimum of one every morning. But I have to say that the sfogliatelli at the famed pasticceria Scaturchio were more exquisite still. When shrivled on the outside it is white inside and ready to eat. It is bought in Novemeber, dried, and eaten as an appetizer Christmas Eve. A gorgeous squash store vendor displaying her vegetable salad, a specialty of the region Does fish ever look fresher?!
I love the Nespresso aerocinno for foaming milk perfectly and effortlessly but when it comes to cleaning the 'non stick' bottom surface it is anything BUT effortless and if it isn't cleaned between foamings it develops little burnt milk points.
My first solution was to scratch at the milk with my fingernails--not a happy one. A better solution turned out to be a dobie plastic sponge reserved for this use. But what a nuisance to have to hide not one but two dobie sponges from my cleaning lady who loves to grab them to scour the cooktop!
