Fiadone (singular) or fiadoni (plural) were originally known as "h'iatun'" or "hiadone" in the Molise countryside. However tourist brochures from this region now refer to them as "fiadone". On the world wide web this style of cheese pastry has many different names, including: fiadone con ricotta, fiadone al ricotta, fiadone di ricotta, fiadoni con ricotta, fiadoni al ricotta, fiadoni di ricotta, fiadone dolce, and sweet fiadone.

Ingredients

For pastry dough:

• 2 eggs

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 2 tablespoons sugar

Introduction of TARES, the new tax for rubbish disposal.
Italy - January 2013.

What is TARES?
Tares is the new rubbish disposal tax introduced last year by the Salva Italia decree law - D.L. 201/2011  art.14. Tares will be effective from January 2013, replacing the former rubbish tax Tarsu or Tia.

The costs of TARES
Apart from the waste disposal, Tares will also includes other public services like public lightening and other services provided by Municipalities. Tares will costs 30 cents of Euro per square metre of your house. Therefore if your house is 100 sqm, Tares will cost you 30,00 euro to be paid in four instalments. The last instalment could be increased of 10 cents of Euro per square metre for balance reasons.

When TARES has to be paid?
Tares has to be paid by anyone who owns an house in Italy and also by tenants with a regular rental contract.

TARES deadlines
The total amount can be paid in four instalments:
-    January
-    April
-    June
-    December

 Although there is no characteristic mask-figure in Abruzzo, there are still various ritual and propitiatory customs connected with the Carnival. Among these customs we must mention the dances known as "lu saltarello" and the "lacci d'amore", a famous tradition at Sant'Andrea, the smashing of cooking pots and the greasy pole.

In Guardiagrele on the day of the carnival, people dresses in traditional clothes. Men wear a hat with a flower into the band or are dressed as carnival characters: the lawyer, the judge, the professor, the doctor, the captain, the merchant. Local women goes to church dressed in traditional long, black skirts with strips of brighter clothes and aprons, blouses decorated with handmade lace, handmade wooden shawls, and gold pendants.

In Schiavi d’Abruzzo, on the Carnival day, also known as “martedi’ grasso”, young men from the village dress up in funny carnival clothes all wearing a huge paper hat representing a bouquet of flowers and roses. These guys are called "Mazzaroni" in local dialect, they stroll the streets of the village singing, playing and dancing a traditional dance called "La Spallata", pushing each other shoulder against shoulder. They goes door to door performing their amusing show and asking for sweets, food and wine.

In Molise Carnival is characterised by an atmosphere that takes back to Pagan rituals and is celebrated in a darker way than in many other regions of Italy where it is characterised by colourful masks, parades, amusing jokes and games. Molise celebrates the Carnival in a deeply symbolic way.

At Carpinone, Roccasicura and Forli del Sannio, the carnival puppet “Fantoccio” is burned at the stake, in the main square of the village where a huge fire burns in front of the villagers.