Alcohol is an integral part of Italian life, but its rarely used to excess. Rather it is woven into the cultural fabric, making it just as much a part of a meal as the food served with it, or as a part of the conversation as the speakers who drink it. Find out much more about the Italian relationship with alcohol by listnening to this episode of "Italian adventures with Scuola da Vini" presented by Jane Vincent and Claudio Rossetti.

You know how the inuit have more than 100 names for snow, and the English have close to 1500 names for different types of rain. Well, it turns out the Italians can name and recognize more than 300 different types of bread and every Italian school child knows how to describe the anatomical structure of their daily loaf.

If you want to know more, then join us on our fantastical journey following a breadcrumb trail left by Italian bakers from the Mediterranean to the Alps, and pick up a few new Italian words along the way.