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Texas Wine with Shelly Wilfong

Shelly Wilfong, host of the podcast This is Texas Wine, takes Rose Thomas through the map of the USA's fifth-largest wine producing state. Rose Thomas likes Shelly's podcast so much, she scheduled a trip to Texas to learn more. Texas is larger than France, with diverse terroirs, beautiful tasting rooms, talented winemakers and the occasional prize saddle. Check out Shelly's podcast and her excellent website full of resources for the Texas-Wine-curious: https://www.thisistexaswine.com/If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow @mododibere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and sign up for the newsletter at www.mododibere.com.C’è un altro podcast in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.comAudio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein.ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Bestial States, the ”Girly” Glass and the Sicilian Sunset

Welcome to Season 2 of Modo di Bere! Rose Thomas returns from a summer of research and adventure, kicking off the season with a collection of hangover sayings from around the world. Rose Thomas defines "modo di bere" and shares her journey as a Nebraskan folk singer, Minnesota bartender, New York City sommelier and Italian dialect enthusiast. If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow @mododibere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and sign up for the newsletter at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.comYou heard a clip of a song by Rose Thomas in this trailer. Visit www.rosethomasbannister.com to hear more.Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein.ssilverstein@earthlink.net

The Raw Rush of Survival: Wine Tour Driving with Rose Thomas

On the road for Modo di Bere, Rose Thomas records the story of how she overcame her trepidation about driving in Italy and Spain and embraced the thrill of the wine tour driving that brings her such adventures as meeting mules at midnight on a mountaintop in the Sierra Nevadas. She shares the elements of winery tours, lessons learned when renting cars overseas, and how falling in love with wine is to fall in love with the landscape.Towards the end, Rose Thomas shares the story behind the name "modo di bere," literally, way of drinking, a pun on the Italian word for a saying.Here are the wineries Rose Thomas mentions visiting in Andalucía:PurulioLos CautivosBodega CauzónGarcía de VerdeviqueBarranco OscuroAlqueria de MoraymaF. SchatzMaurizio Anfosso and Roberta Repaci drive down the mountainside from their winery and up the next mountain to tend their ancient vines in the Dolceacqua area of Liguria in Italy: Ka*MancinéIf you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and sign up for the newsletter at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Glass on the Table: the Multi-Instru-Lingualism of Ou

Ersilia Prosperi, the composer of the Modo di Bere theme music, and her illustrious producer Amy Denio play together in Ou, a band that sings in a myriad of dialects. This episode includes clips of Ersilia's compositions for Ou in Spanish, Italian, French, Sardo, and Pygmy. Ersilia, Amy and Rose Thomas swap naughty toasts and discuss the various personalities expressed through different languages and different instruments. This is the second Modo di Bere episode to date where someone (Amy) says she learned Italian so that she could understand what everyone was laughing about. Download this episode for opinions on the philosophy expressed through Italian humor, language as a compositional choice, musical responses to geopolitics, and the desires of an egg as expressed in the language of Ersilia's Sardinian homeland. Wait til the end for a new composition Ersilia made just for Modo di Bere! [This episode references strong language as well as strong drink.] You can purchase Ou's albums at oumusic.bandcamp.com! More about Ersilia Prosperi: https://www.ersiliaprosperi.com/en/More about Amy Denio: https://amydenio.me/If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

The Boot in 20: Campania (with Susannah Gold)

Why does Rose Thomas joke that Italy is "sommelier kryptonite"? Is there hope for wine students staring down this complex country? Of course there is! Enter the new Modo di Bere sub-series The Boot in 20. For each of Italy's 20 wine regions, Rose Thomas asks an expert to bring the map to life. Her guests identify major grapes, wines, soils and microclimates. They tell us stories about each region's history, consider the future in terms of climate change, and share advice about planning a visit! Campania, home to some of Italy's most age-worthy wines, is an excellent place to start the Italian wine journey. Wine Scholar Susannah Gold illuminates the geological and social factors behind Campania's deep commitment to its local grape varieties. Susannah introduces her old friends Aglianico, Fiano, Greco, and Falanghina, along with several rare grape varieties and a couple of vine-training systems that can only be described as living history. Susannah and Rose Thomas share some useful Italian wine law definitions and discuss the volcanic factor in a region where a glass of wine still tells the story of that day in Pompeii in the year 79. The episode concludes with travel advice, from which islands to sail around to which city welcomes the morbid to epic catacombs.Check out Susannah's Vigneto Podcast, where she reviews wine books and talks sustainability. She also has a wonderful wine blog called Avvinare. Susannah is on Instagram @vignetocomms. Susannah offers many different services to wine producers and consumers through her website www.susannahgold.com. If you love this show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Language is a Door: Lindsay Szper of Culture Without Borders (Part 2)

Are children really better at learning language than adults? Is an unknown language a "barrier," or a door to another culture? What is an idiom, anyway? Lindsay Szper and Rose Thomas refer to Hannah Arendt on the mother tongue, James Baldwin on good bread, and the power of friendship to learn a language and to repair the world. Lindsay studies language pedagogy at The New School and is working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. Listen to Certificate in Teaching English program at The New School.More information about the "affective filter".Lindsay also referred to the language scholar Dianne Larson Freeman in Part 1 of the interview. Lindsay's favorite three minutes on the internet begin at 36:51 during this interview with Hanna Arendt, broadcast in 1964.Lindsay presented on the Walter Benjamin essay "The Translator's Task" with her friend Ana María Belique, a leader and founding member of the the Reconoci.do movement,  an independent national civic network that promotes human rights and the full integration of Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican society.
Lindsay mentioned this 15-minute video on Youtube by Robin Waldun that summarizes the Benjamin essay. Reflections on the French word maman come from Waldun’s video.Lindsay learned the saying "Cada cabeza es un mundo" from her friend Florencia Ruiz Mendoza, a researcher, lecturer, activist, and longtime advocate against forced disappearance in Mexico. This is the James Baldwin quote about bread from The Fire Next Time.Should Modo di Bere make a spinoff podcast all about different cultural conceptions of the word "bread"? Send your opinion in an Instagram DM or an email through the Modo di Bere website.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

”What I Need is a Friend”: Lindsay Szper of Culture Without Borders (Part 1)

Lindsay Szper and her pals believe the best way to learn language is through friendship. Modo di Bere agrees! Lindsay is a language teacher and a language learner by vocation. She’s studying language pedagogy at The New School and working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. In this deep, funny, sweet and smart interview, Lindsay tells Rose Thomas about the community-based language school she started with her friends. She also shares stories about her remarkably multilingual grandparents, the playground "exam" for the language Lindsay invented as a child, and tons of incredibly encouraging advice for acquiring--no, developing!--new language skills. Stay tuned for the second part of the interview!To find out more about Culture Without Borders and to learn about their events in the New York City Area, you can get in touch with Lindsay at cwblanguagecollective@gmail.com. This is the book Lindsay mentioned: Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia MahuikaHere is a YouTube video featuring the language scholar Dianne Larson Freeman, and a paper that she wrote about language learningOne of the friends Lindsay mentions, Reina, advises studying language through media about a topic that is fun for you. Reina is a small business owner in New York City, check out Reina's Cleaning Services LLC.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Wine Makes Blood: Sicilian-American Folksinger Michela Musolino

As a drummer, storyteller, singer and culture-keeper, Michela Musolino is heir to sacerdotesse, the Sicilian priestesses depicted on ancient vessels leading the party with their jingle-bedazzled drums. As a Sicilian-American child in New Jersey, Michela couldn't stand not understanding what all the grown-ups were laughing about. She made the study of Sicilian language and culture her life's work even before she started to sing. Michela shares her deep experience with Sicilian folk instruments, Italian poetry, the history of wine as medicine, and a sweet vision of every pre-commercialization Italian farmer who made--and still makes--wine for "family consumption."Download Michela's records and check out her tour schedule at her site: www.michelamusolino.comThe fairly new denomination of Gutturnio, a region in Emilia Romagna where Michela reports they drink wine out of a bowl.Another Sicilian band that Michela has worked with, I BeddiHere is an interesting paper about the high proportion of women included in Alberto Favara's "Corpus Favara," the ethnomusicological document of 1,090 Sicilian folk songs that Favara documented at the turn of the 20th century.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Spew Assertively: Wine Fair Wisdom with Rose Thomas

A happily exhausted Rose Thomas, still in Verona for the Vinitaly fair, records an episode of wine fair wisdom, including: Verona taxi tips, how to spit, how to pack for an Italian wine fair, how to find balance, and how to joyfully accept that there's no "winning" Italian wine knowledge--the diversity of Italy is too vast. And that's the fun: you might as well just jump into the river. Phrases from today's episode: "Una gatta frettolosa fa i gattini ciechi"Far more colorful than the English equivalent, "haste makes waste"sputacchiera=spittoon"Grande, spingi": Milanese for "Go go, great one!"A person who wants "la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca" wants to have their cake and eat it too (not possible). (Also, Rose Thomas mispronounces botte in the episode: it should be "botte" not "bota.")equilibrio=balance"Piove sul bagnato": it rains on the wet.The two main piazzas in Verona are Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza Bra, the second has the taxi stand. :-)Some grape and wine discoveries from Vinitaly's Micro Mega area:NascettaTazzalengheCool producer from Pantelleria, VinisolaIf you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

Horse-crazy: Roberto di Filippo on Traditional Farming in Umbria and Romania

Bebe, Diamante, and Pioggia are a team of Italian horses who practice organic viticulture in Umbria with Roberto di Filippo. Roberto got into working with horses when he and his wife Elena opened a second winery in Romania with their partner Roberto Pieroni. Naturally, he made friends with a couple of Amish farmers to ask for advice. Roberto tells Rose Thomas the whole story as they taste and discuss wines made from the local grapes of Umbria and Romania's Danube Delta.www.planiarche.itwww.lasapata.comIf you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net