Sadie and Nick, So good to have you stay with us in November in our Assisi farmhouse – and glad you joined us at Peppa’s, feasting on her Umbrian rural cooking. A…
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Our late February cooking class in San Francisco celebrated not just host Patti’s birthday but fifty years of friendship for us University of Santa Clara women. Mamma mia! Che bello! (and this…
“I’ve been to Italy..but to eat this food in the Bay Area is pure joy. Thank you so much for this delicious meal…..,” wrote Ellen after sharing in the good times at…
Erika, invited to our cooking class in the Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Showroom in Sacramento, summed up our cooking-and-feasting evening this way: “You truly transported us to the Italian countryside –…
When you walk into the Barcellos family wine cellar in the San Joaquin valley, the poster on the wall near the door tells you everything about this warm and welcoming Fresno family:…
For the second year, a joy to bring “love and passion of cooking” to Fresno. Glad you picked up la passione, too, Marina and Pasquale…and all Merv’s other guests cooking in a…
How good to reunite with lovely Paula! She’d joined in an Umbrian rural cuisine cooking class last year in Laguna Beach – and this year, hosted her own class (with colleague, Gary)…
No better way to spend an icy January week-end than in Arezzo, especially if you’re staying at the warm and welcoming Casa Volpi. After meanders in nearby Monterchi, we arrived close to…
This first “Inside Umbria” adventure for ten persons simply has to be called “a celebration”: we’re celebrating husband Pino’s superb restoration work on our Assisi farmhouse apartments, Assisi Casa Campagna, with an…
While leading his long-horned oxen and playing his organetto, Peppe de Lillo sang le pasquarelle (traditional mountain verses) in harmony with a tambourine-player, launching Cascia’s “Festa delle Tradizioni Rurali”. Medieval hilltown, Cascia,…