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  • A Southern Dilemma

    I’m having a hard time putting together two versions of the same reality. In recent weeks I’ve been reading with great interest Isabel Wilkerson’s fine book, The Warmth…

  • Chef Michele Forgione

    Chef Michele Forgione, from Montreal’s acclaimed Osteria Venti, is joining us as AmorOlio’s guest chef at our first session, March 25 – 31, at Villa Campestri Olive Oil Resort, in the Mugello…

  • Zuppa delle virtu--farro, chickpeas, fagioli del purgatorio + fresh fave & piselli

    La cucina di Salvatore

    Salvatore Denaro, a great Sicilian-Umbrian chef, joined our Tuscan cooking classes at Villa Campestri (Speaking Tuscan in the Kitchen/AmorOlio May 2012), and gave us a whole new repertoire of very beany spring…

  • El Bulli kitchen

    Memories of El Bulli

    I just came across this photograph I took of the kitchen at El Bulli right before service when I had the privilege of visiting the restaurant in. . . 2007, perhaps? We…

  • Adios, Sevilla

    Saying goodbye to Sevilla last Friday evening was difficult—it’s such a beautiful old town, so full of vibrant street life, so teeming with history, that I think I’d like to stay forever,…

  • sara-jenkins

    A Tuscan Affair on NPR. . .

    When NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling interviewed Sara and me in New York about a year and a half ago, we spent the better part of a day with him, expecting his mother-daughter…