When the heat comes in we all head for gelato.Although in Italy, we really don’t need an excuse. I have several favorites I have written about on my site, but today I wanted to mention a shop that hits my heart hard. Not just because Leonardo Vestri is easy on the eyes, total eye candy…
Hot time… summer in the city!
We have been pretty lucky this summer until this week… when it hit the 90’s! I just finished doing three weeks with an ex-client that came back, rented a villa with his friends.. for 3 weeks.We had a blast! We started the week in Panzano, and ate at Vescovino, which has recently been taken over…
Che Culo!
The front of the new art piece in the Butcher Shop in Panzano and the backside! il Culo Che culo in Italian means how lucky! Today was a fabulous day for Panzano in Chianti’s Sunday market.The first Sunday of the month, is also an street fair with local producers and artists brining in their stands….
Cooks night off
Last night we took a night off from cooking and headed out to nearby San Gimignano.One of my favorite simple places to go is Osteria del Carcere We started with a local spumante from the Falchini winery and shared a crostoni with saffrom infused sheeps milk ricotta. For our first course.. I had Zuppa di…
Another 3 minutes of Fame!
I will be on the NPR radio show Good Food Show with Evan Kleinman Saturday! I understand you will also learn how to make your own Peeps, what more could a person want!
Signs of the times.. the other side of Women’s day!
Went grocery shopping yesteday..and these were the posters for March 8th. At the Coop Grocery store, (owned by the left wing communist party) the poster celebrated woman getting the right to vote 60 years ago in Italy. I am proud to have 60 years…. of voting! Outside on the wall near the shops.. the disco…
My mom sent me this. It seemed appropriate.. Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her “beauty tips.” It was read at her funeral years later. For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with…
Pigs in Love
Just having some fun with the Picasa program.Looking through some of the silly market foto’s I have taken. Gotta love a Butcher’s sense of humor!