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Gabrielle Shubert

My career in public service has included 27 years at New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 3 at the Arts & Design division, and 24 as director of the New York Transit Museum. I'm now focused on writing about food and life in Italy where my husband and I restored an old farmhouse in Le Marche. I'm studying cooking at the Institute for Culinary Education in Manhattan. Our time is split between Brooklyn and Le Marche with our daughter. For more stories about Italy, food and cooking, visit my blog.

My Italian Journey

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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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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Food & Wine - 9 Aprile 2017

Cooking my Favorite… Primi

The food in Le Marche is outstanding. Even though most of the restaurants we frequent are modest and unassuming we've had so many stellar pasta dishes, and I always try to recreate them at home. Here are some of my recipes, along with the restaurants that inspired them.

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Lifestyles - 12 Febbraio 2017

Memories of a Beloved Centenarian

My father lived to be nearly 101 years old. Though he was never able to visit our house in Italy, when I think back on his life, I see many similarities between my father's values and character, and the way of life we have come to love in Italy.

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Travel - 29 Gennaio 2017

Memorable Moments while Traveling in Italy

Italy is full of surprises that generally encompass great beauty. Here are some unforgettable moments that we've wandered into while traveling in Italy, from a tiny medieval town in Emilia Romagna, to Florence and Western Sicily.

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Lifestyles - 30 Dicembre 2016

Resolutions for a Quasi-Expat: Cultivate Your Garden

Remembering a New Year's Eve in Italy with an international group of guests reminds us of the joys of knowing our neighbors --across the yard, across borders, hopefully, among nations. When abroad, I am proud to represent a country whose strength derives from the mixed heritage of its citizens.

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English - 18 Dicembre 2016

That’s Entertainment / Part II

The leisure-time options in small town Italy are rich and truly entertaining. With a healthy sense of humor and joy in tradition, there's plenty to do if you just look around you. There is the annual Castagnata, the Saint's Day, the Polentata, and much more.

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Food & Wine - 20 Novembre 2016

Cooking with Earthquakes

It's always an adventure and a delight to cook in Italy. Everything is super fresh and interesting products add convenience and enhance flavors. For my first fall season in Le Marche, I found the pleasures of cooking and eating a comforting distraction from natural and manmade disasters.

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Lifestyles - 7 Novembre 2016

Palpable Fear: Living with the Earthquake

We were half awake at about 7:45 on Sunday morning when we heard a loud, deep rumbling. The house began to shake violently. The noise and shaking lasted about 30 seconds, which of course felt much longer. We quickly got dressed and made our way downstairs. Our house was still whole.

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Lifestyles - 23 Ottobre 2016

That’s Entertainment

With centuries of traditional culture behind them, Italians have a gift for finding totally satisfying entertainment in simple pleasures, or just in the act of enjoying each other's company. Move over, Netflix!

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Lifestyles - 9 Ottobre 2016

Unfathomable Italy

As foreigners visiting Italy every year, we find there are so many cultural idioms we will never understand, like the rules about when to sit at the dinner table or the no cappuccino after 11am unwritten law. But there are also so many traditions and habits that we find entirely enchanting.

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Lifestyles - 25 Settembre 2016

Fish Juice, Please! The Struggles of Learning Italian

Despite coming to Italy together as a family for some 13 years now, our language skills have improved very little. Our fumbling mistakes are a source of total hilarity to us. Italians, though, are tolerant and encouraging when foreigners clumsily try to speak their beautiful language

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Lifestyles - 1 Settembre 2016

The Earthquake, Viewed from Afar

Back here in the States, we try to remotely assess the damage to our town, Penna San Giovanni which is a good 2 hour drive through and around the mountains, from Norcia, the epicenter of the quake. We are trying to get in touch with friends and neighbors and gather information about our house

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Food & Wine - 14 Agosto 2016

Plum Jam, alla Marchigiana

The fruit is falling off the trees and landing on the ground this time of year in Le Marche. The plums on our neighbor Achille's trees that line the road to our house are dropping to the earth to rot, and those on our plum tree aren't ripe yet. Jam must be made from these languishing fruits

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Lifestyles - 31 Luglio 2016

A Day in the Life: Coming to You Live from Le Marche

The time has come for us to get online. After a day in the quietness of the town, it's good to be reconnected with our imperfect world. Our daughter will go to college and we'll be able to see her face across the ocean when we're in Le Marche. Change comes to our house -- life goes on.

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