Every year as fall moves towards winter, I play with ways to use up our summer garden’s last gift, those green tomatoes. For Thanksgiving this year, a green tomatoes/peppers sauce was on…
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We always enjoy having our apartment guests to dinner – but guests don’t generally help make the dinner and set up the tables. Nor do they pay for it! Ann and Warren…
Can there be a more sublime setting for a sublime concert than the grandiose Upper Basilica di San Francesco, adorned with the late 13-c frescoes depicting the life of our San Francesco?…
We’ve been hearing it on the news, reading it in the papers: acquire Castelluccio lentils, Norcia salami, prosciutto and capocollo and pecorino cheeses as an economic support to those in the Umbrian…
You know you’re near Antrodoco, Latium mountain town in the Rieti province, if the wispy clouds hugging Mount Giano lift and you can see “DUX” etched out in fir tree forests on…
The November landscape was misty, gloomier – but no less spectacular – than our first trip to San Marcello (near Jesi) in July. And no less spectacular was lunch at Ristorante La…
We just had our second feast at Ciro’s ristorante near Jesi. How did we ever discover such a Marches region culinary treasure? Just a dash of buona fortuna. We’d headed to San…
My post-earthquake (August and October, 2016) mantra remains the same: “No, art is not eternal.” I’m more than ever convinced to assiduously continue taking in the infinite bounty of the artistic gems…
Since the August/October 2016 seismic shake-ups in the four regions of central Italy – Latium, Abruzzo, Umbria and the Marches – I have a new mantra: “No, art is NOT eternal.” I…
What’s the most memorable moment of an afternoon visiting our rural friends? Meeting Peppe as he’s picking his olives? …seeing his pride in his olive harvest abundance? …taking a whiff of that…