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festa
If our everyday meals were low profile, holidays were an entire different experience. In fact, a gastronomic extravaganza. Half of my extended family is Sicilian and most of them live in Umbria. For...
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twenty four thousand sausages
Animal lovers have peculiar behaviors sometimes. Like, for example, eating 24000 sausages in one day. On the third week-end of January the village of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi celebrates...
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carnevale!
children's carnival in Spoleto, Southern Umbria Its’ Carnival and -if I close my eyes – I can make winter go away. The glory and glamour of Venice and Rio de Janeiro are far away. Here in rural Umbria...
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from Umbria with chocolate
the Eurochocolate festival in Perugia is a good opportunity to sample new and fashionable products Every year around this time, mid October, I get vaguely annoyed. First of all it gets cold and wet for...
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cooking on a sunny day
Over the years our guests have given us the gift of many beautiful images. Images of ourselves, of Umbria, of cooking classes, of fun and relaxation, of greetings. Moments in which the lives of others...
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market treasures
Antiques Fair in Arezzo, Southern Tuscany My husband and I have an inordinate passion for flea markets. When we lived in Zürich in the mid 90s, we spent all our free time rummaging through dusty boxes...
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Hello my friends how are you? Have you had a lovely summer? While the North of Europe has suffered crazy high temperatures this year, we have had one of the mildest summers in ages. I can't really say...
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