The students at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn are now ready for their Italy trip this summer: whether or not they can speak Italian, they’re now ready to communicate with the people.…
If there was any central theme to the 2012 U.S. tour (my fourteenth annual winter tour!), it had to be “communication”. Above all, through cooking – but not only: in Denver, I…
I’ve been offering cooking lesssons of Umbrian rural cuisine in private homes since 1998 – when Cathleen from San Anselmo invited me to bring Umbria’s flavors into her kitchen. I’ve never yet…
My stay in the Washington, D.C. area was a perfect wrap-up to a memorable 7-week (almost!) coast-to-coast U.S. cooking lessons/lectures tour. It synthesized what my annual U.S. tour is about: connecting with…
Che strano! What an odd sensation to connect with Ginny at MIT: we had first met in a bucolic setting in Italy, in Scheggino, a tiny mountainside village on the Nera River…
What are the common denominators of Italians? For me, there are five: certainly their sense of family along with a flair of interpersonal relationships – and who would argue about their lack…
Plans have just been finalized for me to lecture at Boston’s MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Needless to say I am very honored to be asked and excited at the idea of…
Departure date (February 4, 2011) is near! Time to finalize my itinerary. read more…
Sometimes, last-minute events just creep into my tour itineraries. Early last February, I was wrapping up this year’s US tour itinerary, about to fly out to the US from Itay, when an…
During the 2009 U.S tour, I wasn’t writing tidbits for my blog….but I do remember a highlight of that tour: My Day at The Selwyn School …a memorable highlight of my 2009…