Near Perugia, Pila’s Picantissimo Cuisine
Many scholars maintain that the late Etruscan life-sized bronze sculptural masterpiece, “the Orator” (now in the Museo Nazionale Aracaelogico di... View article
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Lakeside Goodness at Bolsena
We usually spend many a summer weekend at the Hotel Eden on the shores of Lake Bolsena. No free weekend... View article
Vincent and Tom, Umbria Calling: Sunflower Splendor Beckons
How not to think of Van Gogh today while looking out over the sunflower fields bordering our Umbria farmhouse? …and... View article
BrusCHetta, Not “Brushetta,” Per Favore
In the rural cuisine of Italy, the family bread, no longer fresh, won’t ever go to the chickens. Bread is... View article
Assisi: Where Floral Majesty Drapes the Walls
Don’t short-change Assisi: the town needs far more than a day to see all the wonders. If you’re in Assisi... View article
“Inside Umbria” Celebration, May 2017: Good Things Come in Threes
“Good things come in threes,” they say. For me, our third year of the early May ten-day “Annesitaly INSIDE Umbria”... View article
Rural Cuisine Stars: Panzanella, a Summer Bread Salad
Hot summer days bring “panzanella time” to central Italy. This rural dish of la cucina povera (literally “cooking of the... View article
Our Apartment Guests: Feeling “Right at Home”
Linda and Ken left us this note after their June 2017 stay in our Casa Nuova country apartment: “Thanks to a... View article
Assisi’s Calendimaggio: Zenith of a May Celebration
A highpoint of springtime in Umbria – indeed, of all of central Italy – is Assisi’s stunning early May medieval... View article
Spello’s Infiorate: Saying It With Flowers
….and not just a kaleidoscope of flowers but seeds, wild field greens, wild fennel, leaves, and walnut, cypress and other... View article
Agenzia Viaggi Stoppini in Assisi handles all technical support for my guided visits (bus transportation, organization of meals, etc)