"sd" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> In article >,
> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
> > One of the menu items at Safari, the East African restaurant that we
> > went with Steve to on Saturday was Fettucine Alfredo.
>
> I remembered that I forgot (!) to mention this "oddity" when I posted.
> I'm still not sure why _northern_ Italy was so influential, but ...
> Glad you remembered. It was one more point of interest to the evening.
>
> sd
>
> p.s. to the other poster mentioning Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, this
> guy is/was Somali, so it didn't really enter into the conversation. s

Italy overran Somalia too, and until all the infrastructures in Somalia
collapsed the Italian university system had ties with Somalia. There were a
number of Somalians studying geology at the U of Florence when I was there
in the early 80s.

Kyle