This past winter, Raphael’s Madonna di Foligno (1512) returned “home” to Foligno for a week, attracting thousands of visitors. She’s now back in the Vatican Museum where she’s enchanted visitors since the early 19th century. A copy of the Raphael masterpiece is on view in Foligno’s Palazzo Trinci and nearby is a resin copy made…
My passione for Umbria’s rural life and rural cuisine was not waning as I started the final cooking class of my 2014 7-week coast-to-coast U.S. cooking classes/lectures tour. Was I tired, though? A bit. But Mary, the enthusiasm – and warm welcome – of your Brookeville. MD. women’s cooking group was a catalyst, an energy-charger!…
For quite a few years now, my U.S. cooking classes wrap up in Washington D.C. A few years ago, my tours started on the East Coast: that all changed with a snowstorm that shut down the D.C. airports the day after I flew out to New York. My tours now always start in early February…
Vicki’s cooking class in Columbia, MD gathered together an enthusiastic group of women who teamed to cook an Umbrian rural feast of fresh goodness. In my talk prior to the class, I zeroed in on the highlights of the Mediterranean diet: fresh, seasonal ingredients, farm-to-table as much as possible, avoiding the use of processed foods.…
One of the Silver Spring, Maryland “cooks”, Donald, put it this way: “A grand evening. A sumptuous feast in the middle of some amazing art and artists.” Not only was our dinner set up as a buffet right in the studio of co-host artist Dave Daniels, but artists Fred Wessel, Judy Bates and Lee-Ann Chellis…
Can’t remember how many years ago we met in your kitchen, Paulette. But I know the connection was Italian Notebook where you’d read my stories of life in Italy. I’m still writing rural memories for Italian Notebook – and still cooking in your kitchen! Thanks to both you and Jim for inviting me once again…
“…Ten years of trying to find a spot in one of your classes: I finally got in! It was worth the wait! I finally found you!..” Lorraine wrote after our Bethesda class, adding “What a wonderful cooking class this has been! Every part of it was fun and delicious! Next stop: Assisi!’ Lisa and Gary,…
Am I just giving out recipes to the cooking classes? I hope not. I want to teach far more than Umbrian rural cuisine: I want to share with U.S. cooking classes the riches of Umbria’s rural culture, rural people, and their rural wisdom. Sherry, my Hernon, VA host, you understood that: “ …..Thank you so…