It’s always a joy to cook up Umbria with guests and delighted, Heidi, that you and your family and friends, cooked with me in our farmhouse kitchen. It made me smile to…
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Gathering together at the village wash area to scrub the family laundry was often a social highlight of the day for women of the small villages in Italy. Chattering animated the scrubbing…
Cultivated at nearly 1500 m on the vast Piano Grande (“Great Plain”), the famous tiny lenticchie di Castelluccio (Castelluccio lentils) cook quickly due to their thin, tender hull. [lcaption]Lentils in flower on…
On an August day, exploring the Valnerina area, we stopped outside the medieval hilltown of tiny Preci for lunch, a bit mystified by the ristorante name, “Ristorante Il Castoro.” The “beaver”? No…
Nineteen-year-old Massimiliano joins with his father and brother Alessandro in carrying on with passione the Marches region culinary traditions of his grandmother, Nonna Anna Rita. [lcaption]In the family restaurant, young Massimiliano proudly…
Shannon and Alison, we’ve toured together all over Umbria (years ago), cooked together in Colorado (more than once!) and wonderful to have you and Flynnie and Gabriel here with us in our…
An abnormally warm November here this year but winter squash has arrived. I paired that orange goodness with leeks the other day to make my version of zucca vellutata con porri (literally,…
A stroke of buona fortuna to come across the Osteria Sienti’n Puo’ on a jaunt to Norcia last summer. We’d parked outside one of wounded Norcia’s scaffolded medieval gates (due to earthquake…
A late eighteenth-century hilltop monastery near San Marcello in the Marches region is undergoing an astounding resurrection. And all thanks to the restoration skills of Pino’s team, Impresa Edile Giuseppe Alagna, on…
Jodi, Star, Robyn and Susan, a delight to have you all in our Assisi countryside apartments! A joy to have you with us, right from our dinner together the day you arrived:…