Since last cold season held us in its bleak grip,
We held my annual party at Cantina de’ Corvi.
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- Four dishes split two ways
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- Lovely dish divided “unevenly”
Un Buon Compleanno
03 Friday May 2019
Posted in Food
Category Archives: Travel
Friends Teach Us a New Word
02 Thursday May 2019
Cena, the Italian word for dinner
Apperitivi, name for the tidbits before
Put the two together, as we learn tonight from friends,
And you have the best of both possible culinary worlds:
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- A lesson that is reinforced by the word on a poster we had never seen before
The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants
01 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Travel
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- What’s known over here, most affectionately, as a “money pit”
Over here this is know affectionately as “a money pit.”
Roundabout Town
01 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Travel
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- Keeping the drivers at bay: The latest addition to Art in the City
Taking Care of Little Things
30 Tuesday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
A little cappuccino sloshes down the side of the cup.
What American waitress would bother to clean it up?
Yet here in Italy (or at least at La Cioccolateria)
Grazia insists upon bringing out another saucer.
Fogged In, Rained On, Sun Lit
29 Monday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
Run off to the EuroSpin. Return home.
See whether weather cycle will repeat.
The Spoleto Chain Saw Massacre
28 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
Colloquio Spoletino
28 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
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- Illegal use of the hands
Un Amico
28 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
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- Or una amica, depending on your frame of reference
Out in the Country
27 Saturday Apr 2019
Posted in Travel
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- Follow the leader
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- into S. Giacomo
Stop for cappuccino e cornetti before the five kilometers back:
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- Open fields
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- Wild Flowers
Away in the distance, the spires of Spoleto raise their heads:
