Near Deruta, Launching Your Life in Italy
Well, Mike and Celinda, you’ve now made the leap: the decision to live in Italy – and over the next... View article
Anne's Blog / Rural Life
Near Assisi, Truly Living Italy
It’s my mantra: you can’t know Italy if you don’t know the people. And Italy today is rooted in rural... View article
Rural Feasting Near Deruta: Homemade Pasta – and Not Only…
That indomitable Giuseppa cooked up a rural feast for our small group the day after a culinary tour-de-force: she’d cooked... View article
Rural Umbria, Rural Treasures: Truly Knowing Italy
Now Andrea and her papa’ Edoardo – from Sao Paolo Brazil – feel they’ve truly come to know Italy. As... View article
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
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
Agenzia Viaggi Stoppini in Assisi handles all technical support for my guided visits (bus transportation, organization of meals, etc)