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Strega Nona Takes a Vacation
What you need to know before your trail
Lately Strega Nona has been distracted-she even gave Signore Mayor the wrong remedy for his headache. One night Nona has a dream about her Grandma Concetta, who has been in heaven for many years, and her little house at the seashore. Nona decides that she will take a vacation there. While Strega Nona is away, Bambolona will do the daily remedies and Big Anthony will do the chores. With these two left in charge, what could possibly go wrong?
Travel Guide
Calabria
Set somewhere in Calabria, the toe of the boot of Italy.
Strega Nona is a sweet grandmotherly witch who entrusts her magical pasta pot to her sweet, but bumbling helper, Big Anthony. While she is out, he turns on the magic pasta pot and then can’t turn it off. Pasta spills out of the pot, then out of the house and into the town.
She is a sort of female witch doctor noted throughout her home village for her numerous successful remedies for headaches and all kinds of ailments.
She’s getting old however and so one day employs a young man named Big Anthony to help out. He secretly observes her singing a spell to a magic pasta pot to produce large amounts of cooked pasta; unfortunately, he fails to notice that she blows kisses to the pot three times to stop the pasta production. Since Big Anthony cannot stop the pot from cooking, the town is flooded with macaroni noodles.
Then the adventures, like the macaroni noodles just keep coming!
In the Italian language, the word “strega” means “witch” and the word “nonna” means “grandmother.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Strega Nona Takes a Vacation
Destination :Italy, Calabria Author/Guide: Marguerite Ciccolini
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