Just when Mario felt he was getting his family back, a little karma comes his way to stir things up.

After discovering that Mario isn't really ill, Giacomo goes looking for Professor Stern once again, hoping to find some answers.

We don't want to give away the ending, so let's just say that Giacomo goes back to the cafe where the redhead works and... who shows up, but Mario.

Composting is becoming more and more popular in Italy, and many towns will supply you with a composter, not to mention a discount on your sanitation expenses! In addition, there's plenty of useful new vocabulary in this video, The voice over is not particularly slow, but it's nice and clear.

Pappa e Ciccia, song from the album "Alla Rovescia" by Radici nel Cemento, talks about a couple who are just that, "Pappa e Ciccia"--meaning they go "hand in glove". Literally, pappa means mush but is often used to mean food and ciccia is fat or gristle, but is often used to mean meat.

The Radici nel Cemento [Roots in Concrete] are an Italian reggae group from Fiumicino (Rome), who appeared on the Italian reggae scene in 1993. Alla rovescia [Upside-down] is the title song of the album released in 2001 and tells of a world that spins backwards. Everything is the opposite of the way it should be in real life.

The song dates to 1991, when Lorenzo Jovannoti was still working as a deejay.

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.

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).