Modo di Bere

On the road for Modo di Bere, Rose Thomas records the story of how she overcame her trepidation about driving in Italy and Spain and embraced the thrill of the wine tour driving that brings her such adventures as meeting mules at midnight on a mountaintop in the Sierra Nevadas. She shares the elements of winery tours, lessons learned when renting cars overseas, and how falling in love with wine is to fall in love with the landscape.<br><br>Towards the end, Rose Thomas shares the story behind the name "modo di bere," literally, way of drinking, a pun on the Italian word for a saying.<br><br>Here are the wineries Rose Thomas mentions visiting in Andalucía:<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/vino_de_purulio/?hl=en">Purulio</a><br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/granadafoodco/">Los Cautivos</a><br><a href="https://www.selectionsdelavina.com/producers/bodega-cauzon">Bodega Cauzón</a><br><a href="http://www.bodegasgarciadeverdevique.com/">García de Verdevique</a><br><a href="https://www.selectionsdelavina.com/producers/barranco-oscuro">Barranco Oscuro</a><br><a href="http://www.alqueriamorayma.com/en/">Alqueria de Morayma</a><br><a href="https://f-schatz.com/web/en/nosotros/">F. Schatz</a><br><br>Maurizio Anfosso and Roberta Repaci drive down the mountainside from their winery and up the next mountain to tend their ancient vines in the Dolceacqua area of Liguria in Italy: <a href="http://www.kamancine.it/">Ka*Manciné</a><br><br>If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and sign up for the newsletter at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

Ersilia Prosperi, the composer of the Modo di Bere theme music, and her illustrious producer Amy Denio play together in Ou, a band that sings in a myriad of dialects. This episode includes clips of Ersilia's compositions for Ou in Spanish, Italian, French, Sardo, and Pygmy. Ersilia, Amy and Rose Thomas swap naughty toasts and discuss the various personalities expressed through different languages and different instruments. This is the second Modo di Bere episode to date where someone (Amy) says she learned Italian so that she could understand what everyone was laughing about. Download this episode for opinions on the philosophy expressed through Italian humor, language as a compositional choice, musical responses to geopolitics, and the desires of an egg as expressed in the language of Ersilia's Sardinian homeland. Wait til the end for a new composition Ersilia made just for Modo di Bere! [This episode references strong language as well as strong drink.] <br><Br>You can purchase Ou's albums at <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com/">oumusic.bandcamp.com!</a> <br><br>More about Ersilia Prosperi: <a href="https://www.ersiliaprosperi.com/en/">https://www.ersiliaprosperi.com/en/</a><br>More about Amy Denio: <a href="https://amydenio.me/">https://amydenio.me/</a><br><br>If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

Why does Rose Thomas joke that Italy is "sommelier kryptonite"? Is there hope for wine students staring down this complex country? Of course there is! Enter the new Modo di Bere sub-series <b>The Boot in 20</b>. For each of Italy's 20 wine regions, Rose Thomas asks an expert to bring the map to life. Her guests identify major grapes, wines, soils and microclimates. They tell us stories about each region's history, consider the future in terms of climate change, and share advice about planning a visit! <br><br>Campania, home to some of Italy's most age-worthy wines, is an excellent place to start the Italian wine journey. Wine Scholar Susannah Gold illuminates the geological and social factors behind Campania's deep commitment to its local grape varieties. Susannah introduces her old friends Aglianico, Fiano, Greco, and Falanghina, along with several rare grape varieties and a couple of vine-training systems that can only be described as living history. Susannah and Rose Thomas share some useful Italian wine law definitions and discuss the volcanic factor in a region where a glass of wine still tells the story of that day in Pompeii in the year 79. The episode concludes with travel advice, from which islands to sail around to which city welcomes the morbid to epic catacombs.<br><br>Check out Susannah's <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vigneto-a-podcast/id1566567910">Vigneto Podcast</a>, where she reviews wine books and talks sustainability. <br>She also has a wonderful wine blog called <a href="https://avvinare.com/">Avvinare.</a> <br>Susannah is on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/vignetocomms/">@vignetocomms</a>. <br>Susannah offers many different services to wine producers and consumers through her website <a href="https://susannahgold.com/">www.susannahgold.com</a>. <br><br>If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

Are children really better at learning language than adults? Is an unknown language a "barrier," or a door to another culture? What is an idiom, anyway? Lindsay Szper and Rose Thomas refer to Hannah Arendt on the mother tongue, James Baldwin on good bread, and the power of friendship to learn a language and to repair the world. <br><br>Lindsay studies language pedagogy at The New School and is working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. Listen to <a href="https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-m22pb-13eb2a8"">Part 1 of this interview,</a> "What I Need is a Friend," to learn more about Culture Without Borders Language Collective (CWB), the community school for world languages that Lindsay co-founded. CWB believes the best way to learn language is through friendship. <br><br>You can get in touch with Lindsay at [email protected].<br><br>Lindsay gave Rose Thomas this great working definition for "idiom":<br><i>An idiom is a collocation of words that tend to go together and represent a common cultural notion or understanding.</i><br><br>Nice! Lindsay and Rose Thomas refer to many brilliant texts and people in this episode, listed here for further inspiration. :-)<br><br>Gabriel Wyner, author of <i>Fluent Forever</i>, says <a href="https://fluent-forever.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/625-List-Alphabetical.pdf"> these 625 vocabulary words</a> will let you communicate in any language.<br>Rose Thomas mentions the mom and dad from the Campania winemaking family of the<a href="https://www.terrestregate.it/en/"> Terre Stregate</a> estate.<br><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish/authors/penny-ur">Penny Ur</a>, a language pedagogy specialist, considers some of the advantages adult language learners have (compared to children) when learning a language.<br>More information on <a href="http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/"> University’s Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) Program</a> and the <a href=https://www.newschool.edu/teaching-english-certificate/">Certificate in Teaching English program</a> at The New School.<br>More information about <a href="https://seidlitzblog.org/2020/09/22/what-is-the-affective-filter-and-why-is-it-important-in-the-classroom/">the "affective filter"</a>.<br>Lindsay also referred to the language scholar <a href="https://youtu.be/pX6UZNQXL_w">Dianne Larson Freeman</a> in Part 1 of the interview. <br>Lindsay's favorite three minutes on the internet begin at 36:51 during this <a href="https://youtu.be/dsoImQfVsO4">interview with Hanna Arendt</a>, broadcast in 1964.<br>Lindsay presented on the Walter Benjamin essay <a href="https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/benjamin_translators_task.pdf">"The Translator's Task"</a> with her friend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yj01OVonkU">Ana María Belique</a>, a leader and founding member of the the <a href="https://www.reconoci.do/">Reconoci.do movement,</a>  an independent national civic network that promotes human rights and the full integration of Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican society. <br> Lindsay mentioned this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGIREz0ak0">15-minute video on Youtube</a> by Robin Waldun that summarizes the Benjamin essay. Reflections on the French word maman come from Waldun’s video.<br>Lindsay learned the saying "Cada cabeza es un mundo" from her friend <a href="http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/current-student-bios/people/florencia-ruiz-mendoza-2022">Florencia Ruiz Mendoza</a>, a researcher, lecturer, activist, and longtime advocate against forced disappearance in Mexico. <br>This is the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8117303-to-be-

Lindsay Szper and her pals believe the best way to learn language is through friendship. Modo di Bere agrees! Lindsay is a language teacher and a language learner by vocation. She’s studying language pedagogy at The New School and working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. In this deep, funny, sweet and smart interview, Lindsay tells Rose Thomas about the community-based language school she started with her friends. She also shares stories about her remarkably multilingual grandparents, the playground "exam" for the language Lindsay invented as a child, and tons of incredibly encouraging advice for acquiring--no, developing!--new language skills. Stay tuned for the second part of the interview!<br><br>To find out more about Culture Without Borders and to learn about their events in the New York City Area, you can get in touch with Lindsay at [email protected].<br><br> This is the book Lindsay mentioned: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-oral-history-and-tradition-9780190681685?cc=us&lang=en&">Rethinking Oral History and Tradition</a> by Nepia Mahuika<br>Here is a <a href="https://youtu.be/pX6UZNQXL_w">YouTube video</a> featuring the language scholar Dianne Larson Freeman, and <a href="https://englishforbeachpurposes.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/larsenfreeman_2006-the-emergence-of-complexity-fluency-and-accuracy-in-the-oral-and-written-production-of-five-chinese-learners-of-english.pdf">a paper that she wrote</a> about language learning<br>One of the friends Lindsay mentions, Reina, advises studying language through media about a topic that is fun for you. Reina is a small business owner in New York City, check out <a href="https://reinascleaningservicesllc.com/">Reina's Cleaning Services LLC.</a><br><br>If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

As a drummer, storyteller, singer and culture-keeper, Michela Musolino is heir to sacerdotesse, the Sicilian priestesses depicted on ancient vessels leading the party with their jingle-bedazzled drums. As a Sicilian-American child in New Jersey, Michela couldn't stand not understanding what all the grown-ups were laughing about. She made the study of Sicilian language and culture her life's work even before she started to sing. Michela shares her deep experience with Sicilian folk instruments, Italian poetry, the history of wine as medicine, and a sweet vision of every pre-commercialization Italian farmer who made--and still makes--wine for "family consumption."<br><br>Download Michela's records and check out her tour schedule at her site: <a href="https://www.michelamusolino.com/">www.michelamusolino.com</a><br>The fairly new denomination of <a href="https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-gutturnio">Gutturnio</a>, a region in Emilia Romagna where Michela reports they drink wine out of a bowl.<br>Another Sicilian band that Michela has worked with, <a href="https://italychronicles.com/i-beddi-folk-music-from-sicily/">I Beddi</a><br>Here is <a href="https://iris.unipa.it/handle/10447/332152">an interesting paper</a> about the high proportion of women included in Alberto Favara's "Corpus Favara," the ethnomusicological document of 1,090 Sicilian folk songs that Favara documented at the turn of the 20th century.<br><br>If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

A happily exhausted Rose Thomas, still in Verona for the Vinitaly fair, records an episode of wine fair wisdom, including: Verona taxi tips, how to spit, how to pack for an Italian wine fair, how to find balance, and how to joyfully accept that there's no "winning" Italian wine knowledge--the diversity of Italy is too vast. And that's the fun: you might as well just jump into the river. <br><br>Phrases from today's episode: <br>"Una gatta frettolosa fa i gattini ciechi"<br>Far more colorful than the English equivalent, "haste makes waste"<br>sputacchiera=spittoon<br>"Grande, spingi": Milanese for "Go go, great one!"<br>A person who wants "la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca" wants to have their cake and eat it too (not possible). (Also, Rose Thomas mispronounces botte in the episode: it should be "botte" not "bota.")<br>equilibrio=balance<br>"Piove sul bagnato": it rains on the wet.<br>The two main piazzas in Verona are Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza Bra, the second has the taxi stand. :-)<br><br>Some grape and wine discoveries from Vinitaly's Micro Mega area:<br><a href="http://www.piemonteonwine.it/SchedaVitigno.jsp?idVitigno=14">Nascetta</a><br><a href="https://www.quattrocalici.it/vitigni/tazzelenghe/">Tazzalenghe</a><br>Cool producer from Pantelleria, <a href="https://www.vinisola.it/">Vinisola</a><br><br>If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

Bebe, Diamante, and Pioggia are a team of Italian horses who practice organic viticulture in Umbria with Roberto di Filippo. Roberto got into working with horses when he and his wife Elena opened a second winery in Romania with their partner Roberto Pieroni. Naturally, he made friends with a couple of Amish farmers to ask for advice. Roberto tells Rose Thomas the whole story as they taste and discuss wines made from the local grapes of Umbria and Romania's Danube Delta.<br><br><a href="http://www.planiarche.it">www.planiarche.it</a><br><a href="https://www.lasapata.com/">www.lasapata.com</a><br><br>If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a> ovunque ascolti i podcast.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. <br> [email protected]

Peppe Voltarelli is a songwriter and actor who travels all around the world singing in Calabrese, the Calabrian dialect. He and Rose Thomas taste a wine from the Cirò DOC. They discuss moving from Cirò to Bologna, and from Nebraska to NYC. They swap sayings, and both Peppe and Rose Thomas perform live songs! Peppe demonstrates how the tarantella rhythm changes from region to region all over the south of Italy, and shows how the spiky--spigoloso--Calabrian dialect is perfect for expressing that you are not joking around. Don't miss this delicious episode.<br><br>Peppe's Music:<br><a href="https://linktr.ee/peppevoltarelli">https://linktr.ee/peppevoltarelli</a><br><br> We were drinking a wine by Sergio Arcuri:<a href="https://golden-vines.com/producers/sergio-arcuri/"https://golden-vines.com/producers/sergio-arcuri/">https://golden-vines.com/producers/sergio-arcuri/</a><br><br>Read more about Peppe's Tribute to the Italian folk singer Otello Profazio: <a href="https://italoamericano.org/peppe-voltarelli-singer/">https://italoamericano.org/peppe-voltarelli-singer/</a><br><br> Learn more about that Sicilian folk tale in the book Peppe mentions by Italo Calvino:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales</a><br><br>This is the Russian songwriter Peppe mentioned, <a href="https://www.pushkinhouse.org/blog/2019/4/10/vladimir-vysotsky-the-greatest-russian-singer-songwriter-youve-never-heard-of">Vladimir Vysotsky</a><br><br>Hear more music by Rose Thomas Bannister: <a href="https://rosethomasbannister.bandcamp.com/">https://rosethomasbannister.bandcamp.com/</a><br><br> If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a>.<br>Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com</a><br> Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. Steve also mixed the live song recordings for this episode.<br> [email protected]

Raised in the purest air, where waterfalls cascade down the forested hills of Campania, Teresa Bruno and Ilaria Petitto became friends by chance. Now Teresa is the president of the consorzio for the Southern Italian wine region of Irpinia, and Ilaria is the vice-president. The two winemakers introduce the historic local grapes of Irpinia: Greco di Tufo, Fiano di Avellino, and Aglianico (including Taurasi). They explain their work for the consorzio and impart their best advice for discovering new wines. <br><br> Learn more about Irpinia: <a href="https://consorziovinidirpinia.it/"> https://consorziovinidirpinia.it/ </a><br>   Discover the wines Teresa makes with her brother Roberto: <a href="https://aziendaagricolapetilia.it/en/"> https://aziendaagricolapetilia.it/en/ </a><br> Discover Ilaria’s wines: <a href="https://www.donnachiara.com"> www.donnachiara.com/</a><br><br>   If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MododiBere"> www.patreon.com/MododiBere</a><br>Follow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at <a href="https://www.mododibere.com">www.mododibere.com</a>.<br>Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364 ">Modo di Bere Italiano</a>.<br> Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: <a href="https://oumusic.bandcamp.com"> www.oumusic.bandcamp.com </a><br> Audio files mastered by Steve Silverstein. [email protected]