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Celebrating New Years Eve in Italy
 
In Italy, New Years Eve, l'ultimo dell'anno, is celebrated with rites, rituals and events that are meant to bring good fortune, happiness and prosperity in the coming year. Derived from Roman celebrations in honor of Janus, the god of gates, doorways, beginnings and endings, New Years Eve in Italy is a time to put an end to the problems of the past and open the door to the possibilities of a New Year. And being Italian you want to ensure that you do so on the most fortuitous manner!
 
So wear something red, the traditional color of good fortune, on New Year's Eve. Iif you're Italian that would be red underwear! and eat grapes for good luck and prosperity and throw something old out the window. Then think about the wonders, beauty and blessings of the past year with a short "ringraziamento", thanksgiving, and begin capodanno 2010.  
 
Cositutti and CosituttiMarketPlace wish you and your family a Peaceful Season of Happiness and a Bright New Year.
l'ultimo dell'anno Opera Lumiere
 
This year l'ultimo dell 'anno takes on
new meaning with what promises to be the ultimate New Years Eve celebration, a "World Wide Party" in Siena's Piazza del Campo.
 
 
 
 
 
An "Opera Lumiere" will be staged where all the buildings on the square will be used as gigantic silver screens with projected images of the art and history of Siena. The event will be the largest HD projection in the world:
a 20,000 m2 "screen" with great visual art and live international music.
 
Create your own opera at midnight with this unusual Italian pyromusical
Food and Good Fortune     
 
Food has always been an important part of Italian culture and living but never more so than during the holidays and the seasonal foods of Christmas and New Year are especially appealing. I know many of you enjoyed the Christmas Panettone form CosituttiMarketPlace and the bacala from the Veneto.
 
On New Years the tables of my Italian family and friends include regional dishes that symbolize good fortune and abundance. Pork,coin shaped pasta and specialty sausages like cotechino and zampone served with lentils are traditional to the holiday. If you can't find cotechino or a zampone (stuffed pigs trotter), make your favorite sausage to serve with
 
Other Locatelli recipes including instructional videos
 
New Years Eve in Italy
Italian Fireworks
In This Issue
The Night of Red Underwear
l'ultimo dell'anno
Food and Good Fortune
    
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Cotechino Sausage

 Cotechino, a specialty of Emilia Romagna, is a large fresh pork sausage traditionally cooked on New Years Day. Eaten with lentils (con lenticchie), polenta or mashed potatoes it is supposed to bring good fortune in the New Year (with the coin shaped lentils bringing money).
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