Molise

The last three years, the average neighborhood across Italy, not just across these towns, across Italy is up 2%, and more neighborhoods rose than fell.

Every region is positive except for Lazio, again, the region around Rome, Molise, just between Abruzzo and Puglia, Sicily and Basilicata.

Puglia, which did really badly over 10 years, is actually up 3% over the past three years.

And we can see that a lot of people want to move to Puglia.

There is a bit of a disclaimer to make, however, the regional differences are huge.

In Calabria, Sardinia and Molise, less than 70% of the diplomats find work, against percentages that exceed 84% in all northern regions.

Here the comparison with Germany weighs a lot, because while there are 1,300,000 guys involved in this kind of practice, Every year in Italy, young people in dual training are estimated between 22,000 and 40,000.

The professional training, which is the most widespread, with about 370,000 young people, provides a maximum of 120 hours per year of external training, compared to the 300-350 hours per year of German Ausbildung.

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So, so, uh, we called them Nana and Papa, and, uh, they were from Southern Italy, Molise and Potenza.

And, um, my father's family, uh, was small and from Ireland, and also Dutch American.

And, you know, you could feel the difference from when you were little.

kind of...

Molise! Come on, Molise, where my ancestors are from.

Oh, yes, I'm so sorry.

Nobody goes to Molise.

Like, nobody.

You will be the only tourist there.

One thing I will add, for those people listening who are into cocktails, Chinar is an artichoke-based liqueur that's kind of old school, and it's used in spritz, especially in Venice, but You see it in cocktails, but it's from Molise.

I learned this

Again, I believe it goes through October.

But that is a really nice option if you're headed over to Molise or the east coast, those areas and regions on the Adriatic side.

That is a wonderful option.

You can fly directly into Bari, rent your car, get the train, and go on from there.

But ordinarily, the horse's head is a plain tenpin in shape, or a squat bottle with a knob on the side by which it has been tied up, two cheeses at a time, on opposite sides of a rafter, while being smoked lightly golden and rubbed with olive oil and butter to make it all the more buttery.

In Calabria and Sicily, it is very popular, and although the best comes from Sorrento, there is keen competition from Abruzzi, Apulian province, and Molise.

It keeps well and doesn't spoil when shipped overseas.

In his Little Book of Cheese, Osbert Burdett recommends the high horsey strength of this smoked catcher over to mackerel smoke after dinner.

So I, you know, I, I grew up with this appreciation for wine.

Uh, my family had a small vineyard in Molise, where my father's from.

They didn't sell commercially.

They, they used to make about 500 liters a year, but that was supposedly just enough wine for the family to drink and get through until the next harvest.

It, it didn't matter how much money I spent, it was never quite as good, uh, as even just the table wines in some of these places, and that's where I got curious about wine.

Where in Italy was your family from? Where were you, where were you headed to?

The region's called Molise.

It's in South Italy.