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Gabrielle Shubert

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Food & Wine - 8 Marzo

Apericena like in Le Marche! Is NYC Ready to Embrace this Beloved Italian Ritual?

Americans know it as Happy Hour– that magical time between work and dinner where you kick back a drink or two, a beer or glass of wine, and if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll get some peanuts or pretzels. Some bars lure customers with a full buffet to encourage buying more drinks and possibly even skipping […]

Food & Wine - 16 Dicembre 2018

‘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 traditions, celebrating Nature's bounty with events and rituals that bring communities together and deep down, show gratitude for Earth's offerings. Here are a few that we experienced this fall

People - 3 Dicembre 2018

My Italian Thanksgiving: Making a Home away from Home

I felt melancholy being abroad over the Thanksgiving holiday, so we expats took matters into our own hands and invited our Italian friends for an improvised feast

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Travel - 6 Novembre 2018

Olives and Grapes: Traveling along 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 abounds with olives and grapes. Different varieties, different growing methods, with Emilia Romagna's abundant fruit in the middle, it binds the country.

Food & Wine - 20 Ottobre 2018

The Nuances of Fall: Nuts and Other Phenomena of Nature

The earth yields its bounty to us lucky humans, and makes plenty of work for cooks in the kitchen!

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Travel - 10 Giugno 2018

The Beauties of Springtime Sicily, in Bici

The five routes on our trip were well engineered-- plenty of challenging hills (up and down), relatively traffic free, splendid landscapes. There were extra loops for the more avid bikers who wanted more exertion. The landscape each day was varied and otherworldly. Miles of dry-stone walls typical of the region demarcated landowners, crop rotations or tenant farmers.

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Food & Wine - 16 Dicembre 2017

“La Raccolta Olive”: A City Girl Gets Her Day in the Fields

We have eleven trees. Five are very young -- we planted them ourselves two years ago -- and as expected, each only made a handful of olives this year. Our two older trees produced like pro's, and the others were negligible. Since the press will only take customers with a minimum of a quintale, or 100 kilos, we combine our olives with our neighbor Ippolito, from whom we bought our house.

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Travel - 10 Novembre 2017

2017 Eurochocolate Festival, Two Sunny Days in Perugia

This year, on the fall trip to our house in Le Marche, we flew to Rome and made a stop in Perugia, a city we'd never really visited. We packed a lot into two days, including the 2017 Eurochocolate Festival, and it was well worth the detour.

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Travel - 28 Giugno 2017

Here’s What We’ll Do if You Come to Visit Us

Going to the beach, visiting medieval towns, experiencing food specialities of the region-- these are the main activities we plan when guests arrive for a visit. We love these rituals and never tire of sharing them with our friends. Here's what you can do in our part of Le Marche.

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Lifestyles - 11 Giugno 2017

Italian Pigs Ate My Hostas

It takes years to develop a garden. I've been working on my gardens in both Le Marche and Brooklyn through the perils and challenges of garden pests, weather and general geographic conditions. The resulting joys are the same; the many challenges are entirely different!

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