As Fit As A Fish : The English And Italians Revealed eBook

This book reveals what the Italians and the English don’t know about each other. It is about demolishing stereotypes and celebrating differences!

Its title, As Fit as a Fish is the Italian equivalent of the English idiom As Fit as a Fiddle. Language looks at the world differently!

Using sources as varied as accounts of 17th century travellers and playwrights (on food) to yesterday’s newspapers (on gender politics) - and a private survey (on underwear) the odd and the unexpected are examined.

How do Italians and the English see themselves and each other? What are the differences between north and south in each country? Language learning, ceremonies and rites of passage, and national style are explored: do the Italians understand the ‘stiff upper lip’? Do the English have an equivalent of ‘La Bella Figura’?

The quirks of eating in and eating out: when you should not order a cappuccino, when you should help yourself to wine - and the truth about pasta can be discovered!

This book tells you a great many things that you didn’t know that you needed to know.