The Malta Records have officially released their very first book collecting all the records they awarded in the year 2023.
The book collects around 50 records which concern festivals, exhibitions, individual honours, collections, food, feasts, fireworks, decorations and more.
The book is being sold for €11 and can be acquired by either messaging the team directly or from Ħal Qormi’s Electroit Stationery in Piazza Federico Maempel.
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Roberto ‘Loli’ Linguanotto, the Italian pastry chef credited with inventing the iconic tiramisu dessert, passed away on Sunday at the age of 81 after a long illness.
Linguanotto, known as the ‘father of tiramisu’, created the dessert in the early 1970s while working at Alle Beccherie, a renowned restaurant in Treviso, northern Italy.
The creation story includes a tale of Linguanotto accidentally dropping mascarpone into a bowl of sugar and eggs, later perfecting the recipe with Alba di Pillo-Campeol, the wife of the restaurant owner.
She added ladyfingers soaked in espresso, and the dessert was named ‘Tirame Sù’, translating to ‘pick me up’.
The simple yet delightful dessert, made with eggs, savoiardi, sugar, mascarpone, coffee, and cocoa, quickly became a staple at Alle Beccherie and was first published in a Treviso gastronomic magazine in 1983.
Its popularity spread to Venice and eventually worldwide, becoming a famous treat by the 1990s.
Linguanotto, described as shy but beloved by colleagues, had worked abroad before returning to Veneto.
Tributes poured in from notable figures like Veneto governor Luca Zaia and Francesco Redi, organizer of the Tiramisù World Cup, who praised Linguanotto’s impact on the culinary world and his role in making tiramisu a globally recognized dessert.
Despite other claims to its invention, Linguanotto’s contribution remains celebrated.
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Malta was one of three countries that registered the highest level of satisfaction with personal relationships, registering a rate of 8.6 along with Austria and Slovenia.
The European average was pretty high, ranking at 7.8. Meanwhile, the lowest levels were registered in Bulgaria at 6.0, followed by Croatia and Greece at 7.2 and 7.3 respectively.
Overall, wormen reported a slightly higher satisfaction rate (at an average of 7.9) than men. Young people aged 16 to 24 too were the group with highest satisfaction at 8.1.
When it comes to households, those with dependent children reported the highest levels of satisfaction, rating it at 7.7.
Do you feel satisfied with your personal relationships?
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The National Statistics Office have revealed that during the second quarter of 2024 there have been on average of 63 motor vehicles licensed every day.
It was also shown how in the previous quarter the number of licensed vehicles increased by 765 and that 67% of them were passenger cars followed by motorcycles/E-bikes/PA-bikes with 1,076 or 18.8 per cent.
58.5% of the vehicles were petrol-powered whilst 35.5% of the total vehicles where 35.5%. Only 3.4% of the newly licensed cars were electric and plug-in hybrids, showing how the Maltese population have still not embraced the electric car culture.
However whilst the numbers are still low there has been a 22.2% increase of plug-in hybrid cars (diesel-electric) registered since the first quarter.
On the other hand, 1,666 total vehicles have been scrapped in the second quarter of 2024. The majority of these scrapped cars were passenger cars with there being 1,445 cars scrapped from the roads.
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