We always enjoy having our apartment guests to dinner in our Assisi farmhouse. But Ann and Warren – staying in our Nido Tranquillo apartment for a month- actually paid for their dinner,…
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Giuseppa gives us far more than an “Umbrian” welcome when we arrive at her farmhouse for a rural lunch. No one opens home and heart to visitors like Giuseppa. No one. Just…
“I won’t paint subjects guaranteed to earn me money: I have to paint the memories of my rural childhood,” Nino told me with a grin as he held up the painting of…
After you’re satiated with the porcini mushroom goodness at the Santa Fiora mushroom festival, work off your lunch with a meander through the winding medieval alleyways of Santa Fiora, clinging to the…
In mid-October in central Italy, many are hunting wild mushrooms or gathering chestnuts – or simply feasting on both of them. Countless sagre – food festivals – fête the October woodland goodness.…
“Prendere due piccioni con una fava” (“catch two doves with one fava bean”) certainly has a more lyrical ring than “kill two birds with one stone.” The Italian expression has a direct…
Ostensibly, you can’t touch an “intangible”. But Pino and I did so last June…and at a profound level, living Nola’s Festa dei Gigli with the locals. Ever since hearing about the 2013…
Loi, thanks so much for your “arrivederci” note to us just before leaving our Assisi farmhouse apartment: “Your gusto, passion and love of Assisi are so special! Thank you, thank you, thank…
Carol, LInda and Tom, Darrell and Leona, so good to share the flavors of Umbria with you here in our Assisi farmhouse. …and what better way to renew the links than cooking…
The island of Ventotene has just two beaches: Cala Rossana and Cala Nave. And then there’s “the last beach”: the bookstore on the main piazza, “Ultima Spiaggia.” It’s often the last stop…