Assisi’s towering Christmas tree, rising tall outside the entrance to the lower level of the Basilica di San Franceso, is dedicated to all the victims of the central Italy 2016 earthquakes and…
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We always celebrate Thanksgiving in our Assisi farmhouse…with a little italiano input. Pino’s turkey takes center stage. A winter squash dish from the island of Ustica, off Sicily, is always a side…
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…
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…
…….….as the black T-shirts of the Florentine jazz musicians, Funk Off, proclaim. And on an early October Sunday, their trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums and cymbals blared out the message through Assisi’s medieval…
……and yet another fund-raiser soon coming up here in Assisi for those left homeless in central Italy’s devastating earthquake of August 24, 2016. In late September, early October, world-class jazz musicians –…
The Feast of Santa Cristina, patron saint of Bolsena, is celebrated con passione by all the townspeople at the end of July. A festival not to miss if you’re near Lake Bolsena…
On August 2nd, Piazza Inferiore San Francesco was closed off, Italian police of various branches and military surrounded the piazza, eyes roving everywhere. An entourage of armored cars with darkened windows pulled…
Late afternoon on a breezy summer Sunday, Pino and I set out for Arezzo, a favorite southern Tuscan city. It was the first Sunday of the month, the day of the Fiera…
In Italian, “gusto” means “flavor” – and what flavorful rural goodness cooked up by the locals to celebrate la Festa di Sant’Anna, July 26th. And the rural people of the mountain area…