Having breakfast at the bar is one of our favorite daily dates. For some of us it is a small luxury, for others it is an immensely enjoyable necessity. But for all of us, it’s the first meal of the day we pamper ourselves.

We’ve been talking about presidential elections for days. While it says first, second and third, the blank grades continue to dominate. Yet the political parties have not determined their common candidates. So we Italians say “piano piano!” which means, “slow, slow”. Now is the time to explain our “don’t be in a hurry” philosophy.