White Truffle market in Città di Castello

White Truffle market in Città di Castello

Each year at the end of October or the beginning of November, Città di Castello celebrates the white truffle with a market dedicated to this precious delicacy. It is called the Salone Nazionale di Tartufo Bianco Pregiato. One sells not only white truffles from Umbria...

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Fish restaurant Mugnanese

Fish restaurant Mugnanese

Mugnanesi is a very small hamlet set in the municipality of Castiglione del Lago. There are maybe 10 houses and one church. There is no bar, but one restaurant: Osteria di Mugnanese. Osteria di Mugnanese is only open when you've made a reservation in the weekend,...

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Pasta alla Norcina

Pasta alla Norcina

Pasta alla Norcina is a typical Umbrian pasta dish. The name derives from the small village Norcia. Norcia is in the Sibillini mountains and famous for its sausages, cheeses and cold cuts. People here are quite proud of their local kitchen and rightly so! Umbria also...

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Ristorante Pizzeria Il Vecchio Mulino

Ristorante Pizzeria Il Vecchio Mulino

Il Vecchio Mulino has a name in Tuoro sul Trasimeno, where I live. This pizzeria already exists from the late seventies and it is some years now that the current owners Luciana and Raffaele took over.  We regularly eat here but it never occurred to me to dedicate a...

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Olive harvest at Frantoio Loreti in Gualdo Tadino

Olive harvest at Frantoio Loreti in Gualdo Tadino

Olive harvest in Umbria Every year in October and November is the time to harvest the olives in Umbria. In 2014 we had a terrible harvest: a combination of bad weather (a mild winter and rain in summer) led to Italy's most disastrous olive harvest. The olive fruit fly...

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Halloween in Italy

Halloween in Italy

Chiusi is one of these typical hilltop towns in the South Tuscany, on the Umbria/Tuscany border. It used to be an Etruscan city. Chiusi overlooks the valley of Valdichiana. Chiana used to be a side river of the Tiber. Lake Chiusi and Lake Montepulciano are two...

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Risotto ai Funghi Porcini recipe

Risotto ai Funghi Porcini recipe

Funghi porcini, or Boletus Edulis, is a wild mushroom which is not too difficult to find in the forests in Italy. Many go out to find these precious mushrooms, often just after the summer season in September and October. Once I accompanied a friend into the forest in...

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Restaurant in Spoleto

Restaurant in Spoleto

The Summer is over and Autumn is here. Fall is the season of amazing seasonal food. October is the month of the grape harvest and November is the month of the new olive oil. This year is a very good year, the grapes are wonderful, and the olives didn’t suffer from...

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Sagrantino di Montefalco

Sagrantino di Montefalco

Last week I was invited to come to Montefalco where the owners of La Vigna, an agriturismo near Saragano in Umbria, were to expose their wines at Enologica. This is a wine tasting event to celebrate the grape harvest and the production of yet again new top wines in...

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Sara the Dachshund

Sara the Dachshund

Sara is a well know dachshund in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria. The owners of Sara have an Italian delicacy shop in the city centre, called La Dispensa del Lago. Every day you find the dachshund in the shop, hidden under a cupboard. But when somebody passes by to hug...

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