November is the month for the squash appassionati (and I’m one). Our favorite fruit and vegetable stand near Assisi – that of Roberto Migliosi and family – tempts with a variety of…
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We often eat at Peppa’s. Every meal is always an Umbrian rural feast, and although she’ll invite us over for “solo per un primo,” it’s never “just a first course.” Lunch…
The sugar, salt and coffee are the only foods on the table in Giuseppa and Paolo’s farmhouse kitchen not raised by them. Lunch or dinner there is truly a “farm-to-table” experience or,…
When here in our splendid Umbria, “Italy’s green heart”, you simply can’t miss meeting and feasting with Umbria’s rural people. Just ask young Shelby from Georgia, here in June in one of…
As you stroll the medieval hill towns, look down as well as up: art is often on the cobblestoned piazzas and alleyways. The “Madonnara” artists re-created art masterpieces in chalk – and…
What better way to experience Italy than to know the artisans? Join us in Deruta to meet “an artisan duo”: creators of maiolica masterpieces and culinary artist, farm friend Giuseppa. Kara and…
Nothing like experiencing that “dual magic” of Italy: artistic treasures and good eating. A morning in Deruta offers us that pairing. A rural feast at Giuseppa’s farm awaits after a visit to…
A stroke of buona fortuna to come across the Osteria Sienti’n Puo’ on a jaunt to Norcia last summer. We’d parked outside one of wounded Norcia’s scaffolded medieval gates (due to earthquake…
Peppa often invites us over for lunch or dinner and the invitation is almost always preceded with “non ho molto ma mangeremo qualcosa”: “I don’t have much but we’ll eat something.” This…
How did I end up spending the rest of my life in Umbria? The Italian connection started years ago while studying junior-year-abroad in Rome. Coming up to half a century soon: Mary,…