Eric, Marion, Prisca and Robin, mille grazie for coming all the way from the Netherlands to stay in our Assisi countryside apartment. Such a pleasure to host you – our first Dutch guests! – and we’re delighted that all of you enjoyed being here with us. We appreciate your arrivederci note to us: “Thank you…
The hills undulating down from Montefalco are laced with vineyards of the Sagrantino, a prized grape indigenous a to very limited area of Umbria. ….and mamma mia, how these wines – and not only! – are feted in Montefalco during their late September weekend festival, Enologica Montefalco (“Wine-making Montefalco”). This year, the fortieth edition animated…
There’s no doubt about it: Giuseppa opens her heart as well as her home to us as she serves up a rural feast. Can’t you just see the joy in her face? ……and what pride, too, as she serves up her homemade tagliatelle topped with a meat sauce of veal, pork and goose. All meats…
“Sua Maesta’, La Porchetta” (“Her Majesty, La Porchetta“) is the title of an article in a local Assisi-area magazine on the Sagra della Porchetta. …..and yes, queen of this August 10-day sagra (a village food festival) was certainly la porchetta: pork roasted on a spit all night and seasoned with garlic, local olive oil, rosemary,…
Gleefully shouting children jumped from rocky outcrops into the sea, arms outspread. As I watched them leaping into that aquamarine Mediterranean water with a splash, I lived a leap, too: a metaphoric splash, right into past decades when our three children had cavorted in the waters of the Tuscan seacoast town, Talamone. I have a…