Food & Wine - 8 Marzo 2020 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
News - 27 Ottobre 2016 Renzi in visita nelle zone nuovamente colpite dal terremoto Matteo Renzi incontra il sindaco e gli operatori impegnati nel fronteggiare una situazione che spaventa la popolazione. "Sono qui per dirvi che tutto l'Italia è al vostro fianco... Chiedo al Parlamento, nel pieno rispetto dei ruoli, di fare più veloce possibile per approvare il decreto sul terremoto, ci sono le risorse e gli strumenti per mettersi a lavorare subito"
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
Lifestyles - 1 Settembre 2016 Il terremoto, vissuto da lontano Da New York abbiamo seguito con apprensione le notizie sul terremoto che ha colpito un'area a poche ore dalla cittadina in cui si trova la nostra casa nelle Marche. Abbiamo cercato di farci un'idea di cosa sia successo e di capire se ci fossero danni alla nostra proprietà
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.
Travel - 17 Luglio 2016 A Tale of Police, Figs and Considerate Thieves in Italy My husband and I had our first encounter with the police in Italy and it turned into a chat. We didn't get arrested, but we learned how to grow figs. The second encounter happened when a thief tried to steel our tools and we had to file a report. We like to think that the law is on our side