When Umbria is cooking (today, July 18, 2015, over 40 C – or about 105 F – in nearby Perugia) – and what’s roasting is not grilled lamb but us – it’s…
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If you’re a “foodie” visiting Umbria, you can’t miss a dinner of rural goodness with our farm friend, Peppa – and if you’re lucky, learn to make the Umbrian hearth bread la torta…
I remember scrambling up the mountains of Corfu to pick that pungent wild oregano when I spent an August there in the mid ’70’s. I took the ferry back to Brindisi (to…
Pino’s wonderful mother, Signora Vincenza taught me how to cook various Sicilian dishes – and not only: she was a wise woman and a font of knowledge about every subject from Greek…
Zucchini Pasta with Zucchini Flowers and Saffron Zucchini abundance in our garden and a Rhode Island family joined me on a late July day in preparing pasta with zucchini, zucchini flowers and…
The heat of July has moved in and zucchini, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant have taken the place of the fava beans in our vegetable garden. Springtime is fava bean season – and…
It was a race against time this year. We’d hoped to get our olives picked before the predicted rainstorms arrived. I was up early on Saturday to make an olive harvest lunch…
Rain these past few days and warm sun: mushroom time. I spotted a couple yesterday under the oak trees. What memories of past mushroom hunts – and here is a note on…
While visiting Pino’s family in Palermo, we finally visited the island of Lampedusa this past summer, discovering another Mediterranean treasure. Bellissimo! No time for our usual jaunt to Ustica – but hopefully,…
We celebrated my birthday in Sicily this past summer, too. What memories of a “volcanic” birthday in Sicily years ago. Here is the note I wrote then: Sicily: Volcanic Adventures September 2006…