No trips for us this summer…too much work to do…but we are thinking fondly of LAST summer when we repaired to a villa in Umbria with George, Jennifer and Fanny for a pretty fun and luxurious week which looked like this…(I’m trusting even my most stalwart readers can’t remember back this far…). R and I […]
Tag: Italy
Italy 2014: Postscript
So after the Umbrian idyll and saying good bye to loved ones we headed… yep…back to Florence for two lovely days. We found the restaurant Garga right near our hotel…I’d taken a cooking class from Sharon back in 2001 when the restaurant Garga was on Via del Moro…and we had a fabulous dinner… ending with […]
Italy 2014 Part 1: Colle di Val d’Elsa
Our 2014 Italian adventure is complete, and what a trip it was. Though I started posting from “the road,” it became clear there was only enough time and energy to “live in the moment.” There WAS enough time and energy to take a ton of photos though…phew. The first half of the trip was with […]
Risotto
Well, I’m beginning to think Italian thoughts, as we get organized for our trip this spring. The other day I felt the “Spring trajectory” cross the “Italian trajectory” in my head and…presto…RISOTTO! Our totally terrific local fish store FITTS SEAFOOD makes wonderful broth…halibut, chicken, fish stock and shrimp broth. They make the broth there at […]
Italia…the flip side…
I think maybe my discourse has been getting pretty scenic and adorable (and there’s more of that to come) so thought today I’d inject a note about modern Italy…so you can see that it is the combination of things that makes you love it so…the picturesque/the mundane. If you’re looking for parking in urban Italy […]
Italia 2011
Amici! Home at last with a few tales to tell…guess maybe I’ll drag it out… in installments? Leaving Portland at the end of May we checked the Louis Bunce mural of 1956 in the airport, once so controversial…now just plain beautiful… had our last American coffee and then jumped onto the plane where we were […]
On The Way 