Actually, Patrick and Marilyn’s parrot is Roscoe and he loved the Sicilian cauliflower pasta with pinenuts and currants that we made at their cooking class this year. But Roscoe missed out on…
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The Monarch Beach cooking class worked as a well-formed team to create a feast though this was a coming-together of diverse people from all over the area: some were friends of hostess…
Another great cooking group the other night in Palos Verdes, CA – and once again, my U.S. tour’s theme “cooking is connecting” came to life as old friends cooked together and new…
“Thank you for sharing your recipes, life stories and spirit of Italian culture” wrote Susan, the gracious host of my first 2013 U.S. cooking class. I had toured Umbria with a handful…
Pitigliano, precariously perched on a lava rock precipice, is on the eastern side of Lake Bolsena in southern Tuscany. Like the town of Bolsena on the Latium side of the lake, medieval…
ven the holiday decorations in the medieval hilltown of Assisi – citta’ della pace – bear witness to San Francesco: simplicity is the theme. Over twenty-five years ago, Pope John Paul II…
As Christmas approaches, many an elderly Assisi nonna is telling her grandchildren about Gesu Bambino’s arrival when she was a child: the children left out hay for the donkey of il Bambino…
The tiny northern Umbria village, Citerna (pop. 3500), – ever heard of it? – will now be highlighted on the Italy map of any art-lover (and not only): after years of painstaking…
Pino’s way to season a Thankgiving – or Christmas – turkey is a far cry from those U.S. “butterball” birds, complete with inserted thermometer to tell you how long to cook it!…
“L’Italia si riscalda a legna e brucia il caro bolletta” (“Italy is heating with wood – burning up the costly bill” – i.e, heating bill), a local Umbrian paper reported recently. Yes,…