Italy al Gusto

23/07/2022

Don’t know why it posted there.

23/07/2022

Dang, keep forgetting my daily Wordle.

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11/12/2018

On our first evening in Italy, we were lucky to be guests at the medieval Castello di Proceno for their annual candlelight dinner. Our hostess was the utterly charming Cecilia Cecchini Bisoni, a.k.a. Pucci. We enjoyed a superb dinner made with Pucci's family recipes and accompanied by fantastic local wines. And, of course, everyone is young and beautiful in the soft glow of a room lit entirely by candles.

10/12/2018

Two fabulous weeks in Italy began and ended with lunch in Canino, where we had our first taste of the exquisite, freshly pressed olive oil. Lunch was so good that I had to stop at the same ristorante on the way back to Rome at the end of the trip and have another go at the bruschetta and pasta with olives.

02/05/2018

Check out the "Pasta Grannies" channel on YouTube. It'll make you wish you had a nonna.

11/04/2018

Autumn in Italy is glorious. It’s a time of changing colors, olive harvests and truffle hunts. Summer’s heat is a memory and cool nights by the fire with a nightcap of vin santo are the perfect endings to days spent discovering the delicious treasures Italy has to offer. Please join us in the classic Italian village of Torre Alfina, perfectly situated where the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio meet.

We’ll stay at the Villa di Torre Alfina, an elegant four-bedroom villa set beneath the Castello di Torre Alfina. Our schedule is being finalized but will include making sausage and salumi with a master butcher, making ricotta and cooking with a Contessa, truffle hunting, and pasta-making with local cooks. We will participate in the yearly olive harvest and visit an olive oil press for a tour and tasting. We will tour wineries and hike in the mountains, ending at a thermal spring as our reward. There will be many fine meals in local trattorie and we will eat very, very well.

The inaugural 2018 Italy al Gusto food and wine vacations will take place over two weeks. You can join us for the week of November 3-10 or the week of November 10-17. Or splash out and join us for both weeks. The price is US$2900 per week per person (there will be a surcharge for a single, to be determined). This price includes transfers to and from the airport in Rome, accommodation at the villa, all meals (including vino della casa), all activities and all classes. Not included are airfare to Italy, travel insurance, and personal expenditures such as souvenirs.

Please email me at [email protected] for information and reservations. And please check out the villa’s website at https://www.villatorrealfina.com/.

Andiamo in Italia!

La Villa di Torre Alfina is a private Italian house with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms nestled in the countryside where Umbria, Tuscany and Lazio meet, it's the ideal base to explore the backroads and hill towns of Orvieto and Montepulciano or to retreat after visiting nearby Rome or Florence. Book Tod...

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11/04/2018

As my daughter says, "everything tastes better in Italy."