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PASTA 30% UP BUT WHEAT 25% DOWN
(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - This year's extraordinary rise
in pasta prices has been even higher than previously thought,
the Italian Treasury said Wednesday.
But the price of wheat, which is used to make pasta, has
dropped almost as sharply, a top farming association said.
Pasta pric... > Full news story |
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PASTA PRICE HIKE EVEN HIGHER, TREASURY SAYS
(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - This year's extraordinary rise
in pasta prices has been even higher than previously thought,
the Italian Treasury said Wednesday.
Pasta prices have risen some 30% in the first half of the
year, the ministry said, touching up the 25% figure issued by
national s... > Full news story |

FABIO CAPELLO MADE INTO PIZZA
(ANSA) - London, August 20 - A pizza in the shape of
England football manager Fabio Capello's face is proving
wildly successful at a fish and chip shop in the north of
England.
Nick Dhillion, who owns the chippy in Sutton Coldfield,
north of Birmingham, has created the Italian coach's ... > Full news story |

PRICEY SANDWICH OUTRAGES BRITISH TOURIST
(Updates previous coverage).
(ANSA) - Tusa, August 13 - A British tourist on
Wednesday complained to police after being presented with a
30-euro bill for three sandwiches at a bar in a Sicilian
seaside village.
The tourist had been with six other people - including
two native Sicilians - at the bar, which is set ... > Full news story |

PRICEY SANDWICH OUTRAGES BRITISH TOURIST
(ANSA) - Tusa, August 13 - A British tourist on
Wednesday complained to police after being presented with a
30-euro bill for three sandwiches at a bar in a Sicilian
seaside village.
The tourist had been with six other people - including
two native Sicilians - at the bar, which is set ... > Full news story |

SENATORS CALL TO LEGALISE MOONSHINE GRAPPA
(ANSA) - Rome, August 12 - Two Northern League senators
on Tuesday began a campaign to make distilling northern
Italy's famous Grappa spirit at home legal.
Enrico Montani and Sergio Divina presented a bill that
would allow people to make up to 30 litres of Grappa a year
as long as they... > Full news story |

HOLIDAY FARMS PACKED FOR FERRAGOSTO
(ANSA) - Rome, August 12 - Italy's ever-growing number of
holiday farms are expecting full occupancy for the mid-August
Ferragosto holiday which marks the Feast of the Assumption.
An estimated 550,000 overnights are forecast for the
three-day weekend of August 15 at the some 18,500 holida... > Full news story |

FOOD BEST SYMBOLISES ITALY, POLL FINDS
(ANSA) - Rome, August 8 - More than its art and culture
it is Italy's food which best symbolises the country,
according to a vast majority of Italians.
A poll published Friday by the Coldiretti farmers' union
found that 63% of Italians thought that Italy was best
represented by its foo... > Full news story |
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