All over Italy now, groups of friends and families are gathering together for pasta alla amatriciana dinners in solidarity with the ”new homeless”: the people of Amatrice and the nearby towns of…
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Wasn’t Triple A an insurance company? AAA? Three “A’s” linked in early September at our farmhouse when nineteen of us gathered for a spaghetti alla amatriciana dinner as an earthquake fund-raiser. Main…
…or at least, cook with me! Amy and Fred, Lat and Kathy, sorry Pino missed cooking up Umbrian goodness with us – but he certainly enjoyed our rabbit cacciatore for at dinner…
Pino’s reconstruction team works hard – and as a unit. Now and then, they can team to feast, too! Late in June, Pino’s crew paused in the restoration work of tiny hill…
On the last Sunday in August, my crowdfunding venture took to the wheels: Pino and I put on helmets, mounted his moto Guzzi and headed southeast into the mountainous Valnerina (Nera River…
The day following the Amatrice/Accumuli earthquake on August 24th (my birthday), Pino and I were enroute home to Assisi after yet another memorable vacation on the island of Ventotene. Although Ventotene, too,…
Not just here on Ventotene but all over Italy, cuisine is always a poetic palate-teaser. And not only: the appeal is to the eye as well. A visual work of art, each…
When you get off the ferry or the hydrofoil at the Ventotene port, you’ll see a landmark: mustached Vincenzo in carefully-ironed cotton shirt and shorts near his Ape (literally, “bumble bee”), piled…
Nothing like a “heart-healty,” low-in-gluten farro salad on a hot summer night. And you can even prepare it the day before and refrigerte. There are a couple essential steps to a stellar…
Yesterday afternoon in the main square of Ventotene, a police car and a couple cars of local officials were parked in front of the crenellated ochre Municipio. A group of firemen gathered…