Tag Archives: Villa Campestri

Arrivederci, AmorOlio 2012!

before our eyes, Paolo, Gemma’s father and the owner of Villa Campestri, transformed raw olives into fresh, fragrant, green oil, a taste memory to be treasured. . . .Read More
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Ricotta – a true story

This is Massimiliano Mungilli who makes fine, raw-milk pecorino cheeses, just as his father and perhaps his grandfather did before him, high on a hillside above Vicchio in the Mugello valley of northern Tuscany. The Renaissance, they say, was born here when the shepherd and cheese-maker Giotto was discovered sketching the form of a sheep. Read More
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La cucina di Salvatore

. . . a whole new repertoire of very beany spring dishes. . . .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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