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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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Award for Dumbest News Story of the Week

March 3, 2013
Award for Dumbest News Story of the WeekAnd the winner is: Joe Queenan of the Wall Street Journal with his Saturday plaint about the Mediterranean diet. And before I go any further, I’m also promoting his stupidity on the short list for dumbest news story of the year. Listen to this: “The Mediterranean Diet might just as well be called the Monastic Read More
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Here’s to a future tarte tatin

February 5, 2013
Here’s to a future tarte tatinReine des reinettes: Crisp and crunchy, nicely tart but with a high sugar content, firm enough to maintain its texture when cooked, this is an apple that deserves to be better known. 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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