Sunday 25 December 2011

The Kitchen Trail - Pumpkin Tortelli (Reload)


Even if in Bologna we do not have this kind of filled pasta as a tradition, somehow I changed trail...As the first 4-eggs Sfoglia (the Dough) did not come out very well...that's why "Tagliatelle" are up there. I will try to get the recipe, but you woun't need just the homemade pasta, but the filling and the sauce. And those are kind of a secret in every family. What I can tell is that you need to choose the right "Mantua" pumpkin. Many Thanks for the big round one I got last month at the Agriturismo "L'Albero del Latte", Bagnolo San Vito(MN) - (Great Food!)

Sunday 11 December 2011

e-Motion : my Silent Motor Show


Location: Pincio Steps, Bologna, IT











MiMuovoElettrico: Elektro Fahrrad KTM Macina HS

"Mi Muovo Elettrico" is the campaign to incentive the Bologna's citizens in purchasing an electric bike OR an electric scooter. 
From September 17 2011 the Urban Mobility office of the City Hall offers a contribution of 300 Euro (up to 600 with the documented demolition of a Euro0/Euro1 old moped) 

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Dirt Bikes(UZ) - The Spirit of the Place

Val Tramazzo, Parco Nazionale Foreste Casentinesi
...this is about mountain biking, gravity, and going fast downhill till you loose Complete Control. Nonetheless the wheels keep their Revolution down on path 565 of "Foreste Casentinesi" National Park... Of course Adrenailne is flowing, as needed, and today The Four Horsemen we are riding exactly at the same frequence, I can feel this vibration in my strings. But then...what else makes the chemistry happens I could not say...What I got for a few infinite seconds, today riding down Tramazzo Valley after passin' through the ruins of Case Valdanda is a perception of the spirit of the place. The "Genius Loci", as Latins said, as they believed that a site can have a character. Sublimation? Songlines? I couln't say.. What I feel is about life for people that has growth and lived here, strong dependence on woods, poor farming and in the same time tight sense of belonging to the nature around. Something must have remained of all those lives down here. Deep. I went home with a lot of energy to go. Thanks to the spirit of the place. And yes, my cosmic friend, Uz is Back! (UZALABIKE = UZ the bike the more you can!)

http://vimeo.com/34192415 (Video by Cosmicabc)

Many Thanks to Rossella Perugi (Turku University, Finland)