I’m a big fan of food writing. The backstory behind what, why and how food is eaten is both an interest and a passion. This may have to do with my travels in Italy with our Italian family and friends where food is a national treasure. It definitely has to do with childhood memories of […]
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown The famous Renaissance artist Botticelli was born in Florence when his mother was 40 years old. He was nicknamed Botticelli “little barrels” by his family. A special fondness for his mother must have inspired him to create many of the paintings of women […]
Some of you ask why I write about Italy. There are many reasons but it all begins with a family picture. This is a picture of our Italian family with their friends taken circa 1919-1920 in the countryside near Vicenza. Someone drew arrows on the picture to our relatives including Gino, the one with the […]
One side of our Italian family lives in Milan so every time we visit our cousins I window shop Via Monte Napoleone ,stroll through Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and power shop la Rinascente, Corso Genova and Milan’s outlet malls. But although Milan is Italy’s (and the world’s) fashion capital, Rome was the birthplace of Italian fashion. Future Italian designers like […]
I remember the first time I saw the chapel, from a distance in the middle of no where, on a road trip through Tuscany on my way to Pienza. I thought I had seen a mirage. I had to blink twice and rub my eyes. The view I saw had been photographed thousands of times […]
Seeing and Savoring Italy 