'Tis the Season for Festivals, Pink Apples and Hunting Wild Boar
In addition to the abundance of the harvest, the fall season in rural Italy is a harbinger of many vaguely pagan festivals and...
Olives and Grapes, Traveling Italy's East Coast
Our travels this summer and early fall took us from the north to the south of Italy. Up and down the whole of the country, the landscape...
My Italian Thanksgiving
Our Thanksgiving table I felt melancholy being abroad over the Thanksgiving holiday, so we expats took matters into our own hands and...
Nuts (And Other Phenomena of Nature)
We're in Le Marche for the entire autumn this year, able to experience all the nuances of fall-- fruit, grapes, figs, nuts. The earth...
The beauties of springtime Sicily, in bici
A BackRoads guided tour of southeastern Sicily by bike takes in food, scenery, history, wine, good company, and, oh yes, 35 miles per...
Cooking Sicilian
On our recent bike trip to southeastern Sicily, we were of course blown away by the food. When I got back to my cucina Marchegiana, I...
Two Sunny Days in Perugia
Beautiful Perugia photo: ...
Oil!
Every fall in the Italian countryside, the raccolta olive, or gathering of the olives, is a big deal. It's the foundation of Italian...
Here's What We'll Do if You Come to Visit Us
Penna San Giovanni There's not a whole lot to do in little towns in Le Marche, like the one where we live, Penna San Giovanni. ...
Italian Pigs Ate My Hostas
Urban gardening in the United States vs. country gardening in Italy... the resulting joys are the same; the many challenges are entirely...
