Categoria: MEMO | Maddy Bee

Building something at a time when the world seems to have stopped due to the health emergency by channeling the energies towards a goal put on stand-by for lack of time. This could be one of the plans to carry out during the quarantine. Travel and culture enthusiasts could devote themselves to the study or improvement of a foreign language, taking advantage of the schools and learning platforms that populate the network and which in this period offer a completely free service. How about?

Due to the ongoing health emergency, we are always within our four walls, and the celebrations and atmosphere of Easter day were also experienced in a different spirit and in different ways. In this period there are always many musical initiatives of great artists who entertain us on social networks during our days, but in recent days there has been an incredible event that has involved the whole world, the Bocelli concert. In fact, on April 12 the great tenor Andrea Bocelli performed in an extraordinary concert from Milan broadcast in streaming, which echoed between the naves of the Cathedral with sacred music. The success of “Music for hope” was very great, with a voice symbol of Italian art in the world.

Since the 800 period, eating habits have changed, resembling more and more to ours, both in the “what” and in the “how” we ate. On important occasions – such as Easter – the use of the “Russian service” became more widespread: the dishes were served directly at the table in large serving dishes, following an order similar to that of today. The conclusion was always with dessert, a name that derives from the French word “desservir”, that is, to be canceled, and therefore indicated the last dish of the dinner. An Easter cake is the Colomba born from the desire of a Milanese pastry chef to create a cake similar to panettone but destined for the Easter holidays, the Colomba soon spread to all Italian regions, even if with different characteristics. We are sure that despite the prescription period we are going through, we will all have a good and peaceful Easter!

Why the choice of fish? An explanation takes us back in time to Cleopatra and the hoax she made against Roman lover Marco Antonio during a fishing competition. Antonio, in order not to run the risk of a humiliating defeat, had instructed a slave to secretly attack his prey on the hook, but the Queen of Egypt, discovered the deception, had a giant fake leather-covered fish attached to the hook of crocodile, and Marco Antonio was served!

In this long period of domestic life we ​​can still take advantage of the culture that never hurts. In fact, the Vatican Museums, the MoMa in New York, the Pinacoteca di Brera and many others allow visitors to continue to discover them in a vital way. Every day from 17:00 on the Instagram profile here is a special initiative of the Palazzo dell’Arte of the Triennale di Milano a new format that invites illustrious personalities from entertainment and culture to live in the museum spaces, telling a series of stories starting from from the inspiration of Boccaccio’s Decameron of 1348.

For a week now, precautionary measures have been stepped up to combat covids19 which are surely blocking our beautiful country and also the rest of Europe. One of the sectors that is definitely undergoing these measures heavily is the restaurant sector. Waiting for better times, some starred restaurants have tried to alleviate this problem through delivery, therefore the possibility of having some proposals to choose from. How about?Basically a starry dinner, but at your house even on the weekend. It could also be an idea for this unusual Father’s Day!

Always to get out, at least for a few hours, from this surreal climate that all the big cities are experiencing, think big. This week think about luxury and in Milan think about via Montenapoleone, the 5-star shopping street, which the Milanese affectionately call via Montenapo, where there are the most prestigious brands and historical places in Milan. Come for a ride and stroll along the street as well as admiring the sparkling windows of the “dreams” of the next purchase, you can read the plaques displayed between the different buildings that recall the well-known faces that have lived here in history.

It is evident that there is a veiled melancholy walking through the streets of the city of Milan, in this second week of coronavirus. Suddenly we stopped talking about everything except the emergency which is less and less Chinese and more and more global in our national moment. A return almost to a rhythm and to a dimension to which we are no longer used and which, perhaps, in addition to making everyone think a little, makes us see and appreciate an unusual Milan. So enjoy a good coffee and take a nice walk through the streets of Milan admiring the city in this surreal atmosphere, and if you want something new pampered with shopping in complete relaxation without queues, don’t worry, live the city!

All the pubs in Milan will now be able to remain open even after 18.00, for the long-awaited aperitif. To avoid gatherings, the bar service will have to be managed only at the table by the staff and not directly at the counter. A good compromise in full respect of customer protection. The emergency situation that led Milan to ‘freeze’ seems to be resolving. We hope to return to enjoy all the best of the city soon.

From today until May 17th, the Diocesan Museum Carlo Maria Martini in collaboration with the Vatican Museums offers the exhibition “Gaugin, Matisse, Chagall. The Passion in French art from the Vatican Museums “. The exhibition brings together a precious nucleus of paintings, sculptures, engravings, from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Pope’s Museums. These are works by French artists, such as Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Maurice Denis, Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and others focused on the themes “around” the Passion of Christ, in a path that allows to shed light on different aspects of the delicate relationship between modernity and tradition in art and in the Church, between the 19th and 20th centuries. According to Pope Montini, art is a place where expressing doubts, seeking truth, beauty and meaning, communicating knowledge and experimenting, without any distinction or foreclosure with respect to the faith and culture to which we belong.