And the Holidays continue here (in Italy) we are now coming to our last Holiday\u00a0of the Christmas season- the Epiphany or La Befana..
\n\u00a0La Befana, the good Christmas witch will fill your stockings with candies and fruits and little presents but if you have been bad she is more likely to fill your stocking with ‘carbone’ or coal.
\nAs I have been continuing with\u00a0excerpts from my upcoming book
\nThe Basic Art of Italian Cooking-Holidays\u00a0& Special\u00a0Occasions\u00a0(to be released in 2008)
\nHere is the chapter on\u00a0 La Befana;<\/p>\n
I have had an unbelievable holiday season at my grandfather’s vineyard in \u00a0<\/span>I still have one more holiday to celebrate- La Befana. <\/font><\/p>\n \u201cLa Befana e propria brava\u201d (\u00a0 <\/span>roughly translated means: \u201cthe Befana is a wonderful person) said Sofia continued recounting the story about how she had grown up overnight because La Befana came in the middle of the night to her room and took her pacifier and left her a stocking full of gifts-as it is customary to do for the Epiphany or La Befana\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sofia is 3 \u00bd yrs old and her mother has been thinking of a way to get her to stop using her pacifier.<\/font><\/p>\n This holiday had come with perfect timing. La Befana, (The Christmas Witch) or The Epiphany is celebrated in And the Holidays continue here (in Italy) we are now coming to our last Holiday\u00a0of the Christmas season- the Epiphany or La Befana.. \u00a0La Befana, the good Christmas witch will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7,57,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-cucina","category-features","category-holidays"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLa Befana is typically portrayed as a witch, only she is smiling and has a bag full of candy and gifts for good girls and boys. And like Santa Claus, she leaves behind “coal” for those who are bad. Except often, it’s a piece of hard rock candy instead!<\/font>
\nThere is a poem about La Befana, which is well-known throughout
\nLa Befana vien di notte (La Befana comes at night)
\nCon le scarpe (With the broken shoes)
\nTutte rotte vien vestita (She comes dressed in)
\nAlla romana (Peasant Roman style)
\nViva, Viva La Befana! (Long live La Befana!)<\/font>
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\nThe Basic Art of Italian Cooking also makes a great gift for La Befana or any Holiday..
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