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Food & Wine
Fresh Goats’ Milk Ricotta in Umbria
We are eating late, late, late these nights. That is the only disadvantage to Pino’s goat cheese-making. He milks five…
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Recipes
Panzanella piatto dei Poveri
Thirty years ago, when we farmed our land, every farmhouse had a matera (a traditional Umbrian bread cupboard) in the…
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Recipes
An Umbrian Swiss Chard
Ingredients: • Generous bunch of Swiss chard with stems on • 3 Tbsp. Butter • 2 Tbsp. Flour • ½…
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People
From Cashmere to Protective Masks
Christmas gifts for our family members have often been wool or cashmere sweaters purchased at the outlet store at Novella…
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Food & Wine
Anne’s Parsley, Pine Nut and Pecan Pesto Sauce
With many still under lockdown in Italy, home gardens have become increasingly more important. The Parsley Pine Nut Pecan Pesto…
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Recipes
Pasta ai Gamberi
Ingredients: Small, peeled shrimp 2 Small onions, diced 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and sliced Olive Oil (q.b.) Thyme Marjoram Tomato…
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People
Don Aldo Brunacci, Righteous Gentile of Assisi
I could not remember the exact location in Assisi’s cemetery of the burial vault of Clara Weiss, an Austrian Jewish…
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People
Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific art (art created to exist in a…
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Travel
Peppe’s Pig
When Peppe told me the December date for the transformation of his butchered pig into prosciutto, capocollo, sausages, salami, coppa,…
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Travel
FUNK OFF Rocks Orvieto
For more than 15 years, the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival has been entertaining jazz lovers of all ages. For five…
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