Peas, please!

May 9, 2013
Peas, please!Reader, I ate every one! Read More
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Tuscany: What We’re Eating Right Now

April 25, 2013
fave in the market, CamuciaFave, aka fava beans, aka broad beans, are what’s most prominent on Tuscan tables at the moment, whether eaten raw–piled on a plate, shucked at the moment, and served with soft, young, fresh pecorino cheese (cacio e bacelli); or braised with prosciutto and olive oil; or steamed till tender and tossed with oil and pepper; Read More
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Teverina Follies: Rain, rain, go away!

March 31, 2013
Teverina Follies: Rain, rain, go away!My mother always said: If you can find a patch of blue big enough to mend a hole in a Dutchman’s britches, it’s going to clear. I keep finding patches, like this one, but it doesn’t seem to work. Pretty soon a big, dark, looming cloud rolls over and cancels out the blue and then Read More
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Lampascioni

March 22, 2013
LampascioniThese are the bulbs of wild hyacinths, tassel or grape hyacinths to be precise, Muscari racemosum. They are treasured in Puglia where they’re harvested in the wild in late winter and early spring when the bulbs are just starting to wake up and grow again. As you can see by looking closely, these have a Read More
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Al mercato

March 18, 2013
Al mercatoDrop me into any town in Italy and if there’s a market to be found, my instincts draw me to it. One clue I look for: little old ladies overburdened with plastic shopping bags. Follow in the direction from which they’re coming and bingo–there’s a market. Like these cardoncelli mushrooms, supposedly collected from the fields Read More
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  • Tuscany Spring 2013 AmorOlio

    March 25 – 31 and April 22 – 28, 2013, at Villa Campestri, the world’s only olive oil resort located in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

  • TUSCANY AUTUMN 2013: AMOROLIO

    OCTOBER 21 – 27 Plans are shaping up for our autumn AmorOlio program, October 21 to 27, 2013, at Villa Campestri (“the world’s only olive oil resort”), in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

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