Links are always formed at our Umbrian rural cuisine cooking classes and sometimes, surprising ones: at cousin Tom’s class in Monarch Beach, a participant, Sandy, had studied her junior year abroad in Rome where I had studied too (if quite a few years prior)! Sandy’s husband Randy proved to be an expert onion-dicer (for our…
Richelle – from South Africa – and friend Paula kicked off my 2015 US cooking tour by uniting a delightful group of young women over the burners in Richelle’s kitchen. Mille grazie to all of you who participated with such enthusiasm. May we cook again together soon – at our home in Umbria, next time?…
I missed Woodstock – but I was in Naples on January 7th for the addio to Pino Daniele. How not to be with the napoletani for their final tribute to beloved poet/songwriter Pino Daniele who had sung his praises to Naples in a blend of traditional Neapolitan music, blues and rock? That morning, there had…
A late December “freddo polare” (“polar cold” – which for Italy means anything below freezing temperature) – did not deter jazz appassionati from heading to hill town gem Orvieto for the twenty-second edition of Umbria Jazz Winter. Of Etruscan origin and perched on a tufo rock plateau, medieval Orvieto rocked for six days with 120…