An icy December day for a visit with the Segal family to Deruta – but mamma mia, that open-armed welcome of Giuseppa warmed us up. As did her homemade pasta topped with…
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Painter, architect and art historian, Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in the early 16th-century. His name lives on – and nowadays, in good eating, too, at Ristorante Logge Vasari. Tucked under…
In early December, Pino and I headed off to a favorite “week-end-away” spot, Casa Volpe in Arezzo. [lcaption]Casa Volpe, Arezzo[/lcaption] A surprise on arrival: smiling, welcoming Signora Alessia was not at the…
Pinenuts and currants star often in Sicilian cuisine, so richly influenced by Middle Eastern culinary heritage. They enhance la pasta al cavolfiore (“pasta with cauliflower), a filling, tasty Sicilian winter dish Pino’s…
Don’t miss wandering the medieval backstreets of Spello, floral profusion in springtime: Roman arches span a few of them… Near the top of the town, you’ll come to the Roman Arch of…
That rich coral-orange winter squash appeals to the eye as well as to the palate. I’m cooking with it frequently now in November, making soups, pasta dishes and antipasti. Here’s today’s pasta…
That rich orange winter squash has enhanced many a soup and pasta dish for us this November. Today, polpette di zucca are browning in the oven of our wood stove. You’d literally…
Thanksgiving is around the corner and winter squash will enhance many a “Turkey Day” feast. Here in Umbria, too, winter squash stars in many a dish from antipasti to gnocchi to soups…
On a chilly November day, we headed to Sugano near Orvieto where Pino is working on restoration of the farmhouse of our son Keegan and his wife, Francesca. The winding road took…
Woodstove chugging away these days as November chill sets in….finalmente, after an inordinately warm fall. The wood stove top is perfect for simmering soups and the speckled beans, borlotti, joined farro (the…