Comments on: The Butchers of Corleone http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/ Life in London, Paris and Auckland, and the places in between. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:35:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: epicurienne http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1343 epicurienne Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:52:42 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1343 Hey Daniel, hope your trip is going well! Thanks for the compliment, especially as I just got blasted by an irate reader about stereotyping the Sicilians. I really appreciate it. If you survived your sudden exit from the comments box, that is! Hey Daniel, hope your trip is going well! Thanks for the compliment, especially as I just got blasted by an irate reader about stereotyping the Sicilians. I really appreciate it. If you survived your sudden exit from the comments box, that is!

]]> By: Daniel http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1333 Daniel Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:11:52 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1333 "The market’s cacti were as prickly as the Corleonese. " — that's a great line. I think it's okay to poke a little fun at those gangster types. Love the tone of you post. Look forward to—wait whose that? Hello? ASDkljasdfasd.... “The market’s cacti were as prickly as the Corleonese. ” — that’s a great line. I think it’s okay to poke a little fun at those gangster types. Love the tone of you post. Look forward to—wait whose that? Hello? ASDkljasdfasd….

]]> By: epicurienne http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1331 epicurienne Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:15:17 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1331 Pat - I seriously doubt that Williams Sonoma has the same selection. Some of these things really should have been locked away in a cabinet like guns. The thought of even touching the more jagged knives was scary - they gave new meaning to the word 'serrated'. And like you, I've never before seen so many knives at one market. Ever. The grammas must keep them busy. Pat – I seriously doubt that Williams Sonoma has the same selection. Some of these things really should have been locked away in a cabinet like guns. The thought of even touching the more jagged knives was scary – they gave new meaning to the word ’serrated’.
And like you, I’ve never before seen so many knives at one market. Ever. The grammas must keep them busy.

]]> By: epicurienne http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1330 epicurienne Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:12:36 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1330 Razz - yeah, you're probably right, and technically we WERE just tourists looking to put mafia stories in context. I find it ironic, though, that they're all prepared to take tourist euros for dodgy liquor with a fictional mafia don on its label, but they really don't want us there. If that's the case, they should probably bring back the medieval walled city approach to life. Razz – yeah, you’re probably right, and technically we WERE just tourists looking to put mafia stories in context. I find it ironic, though, that they’re all prepared to take tourist euros for dodgy liquor with a fictional mafia don on its label, but they really don’t want us there. If that’s the case, they should probably bring back the medieval walled city approach to life.

]]> By: epicurienne http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1328 epicurienne Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:11:43 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1328 PR - I haven't been to a concentration camp yet, but think it's important to go one day because it's a sobering lesson in (in)humanity. Somehow I doubt I'll be able to make THAT sound happy, especially as birds no longer fly over those camps. Corleone was seriously weird. Makes you wonder about nature and nurture - i.e. the relative isolation of the town at the top of craggy ravines which are prime for body disposal because they're so deep that birds of prey don't circle there, alerting searchers to the presence of human remains... makes me wonder if there's something in the water. The vibe is so dark that it made me think of Amityville! Enter with caution. PR – I haven’t been to a concentration camp yet, but think it’s important to go one day because it’s a sobering lesson in (in)humanity. Somehow I doubt I’ll be able to make THAT sound happy, especially as birds no longer fly over those camps.
Corleone was seriously weird. Makes you wonder about nature and nurture – i.e. the relative isolation of the town at the top of craggy ravines which are prime for body disposal because they’re so deep that birds of prey don’t circle there, alerting searchers to the presence of human remains… makes me wonder if there’s something in the water. The vibe is so dark that it made me think of Amityville! Enter with caution.

]]> By: w1kkp http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1324 w1kkp Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:55:32 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1324 Seriously. Perhaps, I've got the wrong image of "Market Day" in my head but that buffet of cutlery had a wider selection than Williams Sonoma. Is that usual on a Market Day to be selling that many knives?? Are those black draped Italian grammas all packing one in their garter? Whaat. Seriously. Perhaps, I’ve got the wrong image of “Market Day” in my head but that buffet of cutlery had a wider selection than Williams Sonoma. Is that usual on a Market Day to be selling that many knives?? Are those black draped Italian grammas all packing one in their garter? Whaat.

]]> By: razzbuffnik http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1323 razzbuffnik Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:24:21 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1323 The locals probably though you were just another tourist looking for a mafia expericence. It funny how the Italians in Italy aren't so proud of the mafia but Italian immigrants who moved over seas seem so proud of the mafia. Here in Sydney, for example, in the suburb of Liechhardt (where there is a large population of Italins) is not uncomon to see posters from the "Godfather" or other references to the mafia. The locals probably though you were just another tourist looking for a mafia expericence.

It funny how the Italians in Italy aren’t so proud of the mafia but Italian immigrants who moved over seas seem so proud of the mafia.

Here in Sydney, for example, in the suburb of Liechhardt (where there is a large population of Italins) is not uncomon to see posters from the “Godfather” or other references to the mafia.

]]> By: planetross http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-butchers-of-corleone/#comment-1320 planetross Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:52:57 +0000 http://epicurienne.wordpress.com/?p=1345#comment-1320 definitely "deadstock"! hee hee! Maybe the locals were all shy ... gun shy! You make a visit to Buchenwald sound happy. definitely “deadstock”! hee hee!

Maybe the locals were all shy … gun shy!

You make a visit to Buchenwald sound happy.

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