Renzo Rubino made a hit at the Sanremo Festival 2013 in the new talent section, performing his Il Postino (Amami uomo) [The Postman (Love me, Man], about love between two men. It was written by Renzo Rubino and Andrea Rondini.

Ricarda, a young Apulian singer, sings a love song written by Carlo Palmas. The song involves plucking the petals of a flower.

Clarissa, Sofia and Edoardo are in the kitchen and they are going to prepare pasta with zucchini for us. For this recipe, they will also need the help of their mother, who will do the cutting. Video provided by uChefpuntoit.

In this video Sofia and Edoardo show us how to prepare breaded vegetables the way children like them. Naturally, they allow their mother to help them. Video provided by uChefpuntoit.

Denitza shows us how to make Monte Bianco, the Italian Christmas dessert “par excellence”. Enjoy, courtesy of uChefpuntoit.

The chef shows us how how to prepare a simple and delicious dessert in just a few steps. The ingredients are: chocolate balls [hollow], custard sauce, whipped cream and berries. And the Chocolate balls are ready to be eaten.

Alessio Uberti, chef of the restaurant Macelleria di Torino [Butcher Shop of Turin], prepares an amazing dessert for us. Video gently provided from uChefPuntoit.

Angelo Piras, chef of the restaurant San Domenico, in Chieri, in the Turin Province, prepares some delicious and quick dishes that you’ll be enthusiastic about! This one shows the preparation of fried squid, with a surprising presentation at the end. Copyright uChefPuntoit.

Gianna Mantovan shows us how to prepare an excellent clam sauce. This video is kindly provided by uChefPuntoit.

Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.

Chiara Gamberale talks about how and where she writes, and how her life has changed now that she has a little girl.

Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.

Annalena meets up with Paolo Giordano who talks about the trauma of moving from Turin to Rome. Giordano's first novel, La solitudine dei numeri primi (the solitude of prime numbers) from 2008 was made into a popular film of the same name in 2010.

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

Melania Gaia Mazzucco talks about one of her novels set in seventeenth-century Trastevere, quite a different place than what we see today. Although she has traveled the world, Mazzucco comes from generations of romani di Roma (Romans from Rome).