That indomitable Giuseppa cooked up a rural feast for our small group the day after a culinary tour-de-force: she’d cooked a muti-course rural lunch for more than twenty-five who’d helped her and…
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Now Andrea and her papa’ Edoardo – from Sao Paolo Brazil – feel they’ve truly come to know Italy. As Signor Edoardo told me, “I feel I only know a country if…
How to bring light to a rainy September day? Cook up Umbrian goodness with me in our Assisi farmhouse. Patricia and Robert, good to have you wish us and enjoy taking home…
The ash-gray jagged mountain peaks backdropping Tagliacozzo accent the pastel palette of this Abruzzo town’s elegant neo-Renaissance palazzi. Encircling the main piazza’s fountain with obelisk in the center, the graceful multi-leveled buildings…
July and August are the months for that pasta dish PIno’s mother, Signora Vincenza, taught me. This Sicilian eggplant pasta dish is a hit with our Umbrian friends, too. Do enjoy Signora…
We’d been to Pisa years ago when our children were small. I can’t even remember if we explored much more than Piazza dei Miracoli. Yes, that “Piazza of the Miracles” is certainly…
As our ferry pulled out of Portoferraio, port city of Elba, I thought about those few days we’d had there on this glorious island and they seemed condensed to just fleeting, pleasurable…
On one of our meanders on the island of Elba, we followed twisting roads skirting wooded mountains, ending up in the tiny port town of Rio Marina on the eastern side of…
When you’re on the island of Elba, you’ll want to get both viewpoints of this Tuscan island: views from Elba’s winding coastal roads skirting chestnut forests and views of Elba from the…
Destination for late August seaside break? The island of Elba, off the Tuscan coast. Afternoon ferry ticket purchased at the port city of Piombino, we were ready for our first seafood lunch…