Sharing tasty food with family and friends is often a week-end outing in central Italy from early spring to late fall, the season of la sagra (village food festival). Onions take center…
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Walking towards Foligno’s main square in late September, you know it’s time for the “First Courses” festival showcasing Italy’s primi: everything from pastas (gluten-free ones, too) to risotto to polenta to gnocchi…
The hills undulating down from Montefalco are laced with vineyards of the Sagrantino, a prized grape indigenous a to very limited area of Umbria. ….and mamma mia, how these wines – and…
There’s no doubt about it: Giuseppa opens her heart as well as her home to us as she serves up a rural feast. Can’t you just see the joy in her face?…
Up on the hill, Assisi backdrops the small (pop. 2500) village of Rivotorto, where Umbria’s traditional rural cuisine draws the locals – and not only! – for nine mid-August evenings of feasting,…
How to refuse when Peppa calls us to ask, “Ho fatto gnocchi oggi. Venite a cena? (“I made gnocchi today – coming to dinner?”) Si, Peppa. Subito. What a sauce Peppa had…
As we entered a favorite eating spot in Lubriano, the sign at the entrance already enticed: fresh porcini mushrooms on the menu that day at Il Vecchio Mulino (“The Old Mill”). I knew Pino would…
From late spring to late fall, revel in the Umbria countryside in one of our Assisi-area apartments…..and while here join us for a sagra, those delightful village food festivals. Just ask Louise and…
Unusual July rainy weather did not keep us away from the gnocchi sagra (a village food festival) in San Giovanni Profiamma near Foligno. I’d never seen the interior of the 12th-c. Romanesque church there and…
Probably an hour after participating in the 4th-c martyrdom scene of Santa Cristina – patron saint of Bolsena and feted in late July in two days of medieval street theater – young…