Wow … the real Italian life … you might think after reading the past blog posts. One dinner or nice event after the other! Indeed I agree I do thoroughly enjoy life here in Umbria! A few nights ago I went to eat a pizza at La Molenda, just outside Citta di Castello,...
Simple, efficient and since many years unchanged … restaurant La Stalla very close to Assisi. You sit at long tables, the benches are not exactly comfortable, but this place is certainly not meant to linger. The food is good, service very fast and the prices are low....
I'll be going to the seaside and beside my bathing suit, towel, slippers etc. I always take… a prosciutto. No kiding! But it was not me who went it was a lovely lady who used to run a fantastic little store selling the most exquisite food and ingredients. (Pane...
Last week the famous Stella Ristorante Vineria organized a chicken event. From the university of Perugia they had a professor come in who knows everything about chickens. I relish these events because though I know about food there are always new things to learn. We...
Always good to make smalltalk. Besides it being a lovely way to pass some time, one might learn something or, occasionally more interesting, hear the latest gossip. Did you know that the wife of ... well you fill in the rest. While chatting away, a beautiful butterfly...
One expects that besides eating food, talking about it is as important here in Italy. A friend of ours, over dinner, talked about bread and wine. I said that while I like bread fresh from the oven, the taste from a days old bread is far superior. Ma si! he replied,...
One of our trusty spies told us that the Slow Wine guide was going to be presented in Montefalco so we grabbed the tasting glasses and hit the road. It is amazing how little information sometimes is available about these events but then you can trust the todoinumbria...
Hunt for wild boar or wild hunt for boar? I'd say it is both! Some hunting days you feel like you have been transferred to a war zone. Loud Bangs, screaming, yelling, barking dogs and what have you. We went for a walk one afternoon and hit upon the local hunting...
Last weekend was party time in Tuoro sul Trasimeno, a small village near the house of my colleague. As normal with these village parties there were quite a few places where one could do some 'liver maintenance' or...
So what does two days of removing tiny fruits from olive trees get you? Wel apart from some sore muscles and loads of small wounds from the aggressive trees ('ignorante' they say here in the local...
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