What’s the most memorable moment of an afternoon visiting our rural friends? Meeting Peppe as he’s picking his olives? …seeing his pride in his olive harvest abundance? …taking a whiff of that…
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As all Castelluccio has been evacuated, I wonder where Derna is staying – and if her sacks of lentils are with her, salvaged from the rubble of the October 26 and 30,…
…..or at least the central backbone of the Italian peninsula had a good shake-up on a recent late October evening. And coincidentally, both our Giulia and Peppa had cleaned wild woodland mushrooms…
Our son Keegan (36) put it this way, “Well, definitely the best year since I was born.” Not only: the best olive harvest we’ve had since we first picked our olives in…
About half of our grapes went to the birds this year. Literally. Pino picked the rest, filling two crates (about 100 kilos of grapes). He bought a small press for our small…
Giuseppa gives us far more than an “Umbrian” welcome when we arrive at her farmhouse for a rural lunch. No one opens home and heart to visitors like Giuseppa. No one. Just…
“Prendere due piccioni con una fava” (“catch two doves with one fava bean”) certainly has a more lyrical ring than “kill two birds with one stone.” The Italian expression has a direct…
It’s hard to decide which is the highlight of a rural banquet with Giuseppa in the family farmhouse near Deruta: her rural goodness, cooked up with such passione – or the warmth…
Nothing really regal about the farrmhouse of Chiarina and Marino but their welcome certainly is. And Chiarina with daughter Rossanna cook up rural banquets fit for royalty. Have a look at the…
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…