Last night we had a night full of Italian culture. First, we had a lecture on Italian opera. The opera started in Italy around the year 1575. It has been very popular since then. We watched clips from the opera called La Traviata. If any of you know Italian or anything about opera, you would know that La Traviata basically means prostitute. Ha. It was a story very similar to Moulin Rouge. Girl falls in love with a poor guy, and she dies of tuberculosis in the end. Actually…that is the EXACT story of Moulin Rouge. It was a very interesting lecture, but something tells me I might fall asleep if I ever go to a real opera.
After the lecture on the opera, we went to an Olive Oil tasting. It was wonderful. We went to an Olive Oil museum a few weeks ago…but we were very disappointed when we didn’t taste any olive oil. So, our director pulled some strings and we got our olive oil samples! Not like I don’t get enough olive oil every day, but it was still fun.
Italians put olive oil on everything….EVERYTHING. The cute little man that gave the presentation told us that he puts olive oil on his vanilla gelato. Mmmmm…..?!? One of the things that I found very interesting was that yellow olive oil, is not always the best tasting. When you see yellow olive oil, this means it has oxidized completely and lost most of the chlorophyll. The better and richer tasting olive oil is green!
Only a few more days here in Siena…WOW!
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