Your Flag: With Eggs or Without?
Prefer your “flag” with eggs or without? Clearly, I can’t be referring to that pennant you solemnly salute with hands... View article
Anne's Blog / Rural Life
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
“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
Peppa’s Pasta con le Fave: Umbria Summertime Goodness
We just picked our last fava beans for this year and some are now in the freezer. The other day,... View article
Italy’s Mediterranea Diet: Topping Chez Panisse
In 1971, Alice Waters basically launched a California version of the Mediterranean diet when opening Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California,... View article
Fare La Scarpetta: a Lesson from Peppa
Sharing Umbrian rural culinary lore tidbits is always part of my U.S. Umbrian rural cuisine events (and when cooking with... View article
Deruta: From Farm Feasting to Maiolica Magic
This May’s 10-day “Annesitaly Inside Umbria” Celebration had to include, of course, a rural feast with Giuseppa at her farmhouse... View article
Salad Simplicity, Salad Secrets
Simply a piece of fresh fruit usually drops the curtain on an Italian meal, for after all the good flavors... View article
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