The Summer is over and Autumn is here. Fall is the season of amazing seasonal food. October is the month of the grape harvest and November is the month of the new olive oil. This year is a very good year, the grapes are wonderful, and the olives didn’t suffer from...
Sara is a well know dachshund in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria. The owners of Sara have an Italian delicacy shop in the city centre, called La Dispensa del Lago. Every day you find the dachshund in the shop, hidden under a cupboard. But when somebody passes by to hug...
At the beginning of September I enjoyed a week's holiday in Puglia. More precisely in the Gargano, the peninsula just above Italy's heel in the north of Puglia. The spur of the boot, so to say. This is the province of Foggia where there also is the sanctuarium of...
In Castiglione del Lago, Umbria you can still find butchers who choose and butcher Italian animals from a local farm. Many animals we eat in Italy come from abroad, like pigs from Holland or cows from France. We often eat meat from another country, especially meat we...
With Belgium guests and friends of Villa in Umbria we went to a craft beer cellar in Nocera Umbria, San Biagio. Nocera Umbra is only 25 km away from Assisi. Giovanni, the owner of San Biagio, brews craft beer. He uses local water of Nocera Umbra with local beer...
For this blog post I went to Norcia. Norcia is in the mountains in the east of Umbria, almost in the Marche. Many people know Norcia for its meats and culinary specialties: pork, black truffle, lentils and wild boar. But, Norcia is also famous for St. Benedict....
Yesterday was a sunny day, perfect weather for a visit the medieval village of Todi where I hadn't been for years. From the Porta Romana we walked up to the centre. It is about 20 minutes walking up hill to get to the centre of town. If you are not particularly fit,...
March 19 is Father's Day in Italy. In Italy it is called La Festa del Papa or Festa di San Giuseppe: feast of the father of Jesus, Saint Joseph. On the local radio I heard that this feast has been "invented" at the beginning of the 20st century, to also give father's...
Last weekend I had guests for dinner and prepared "Cinghiale in umido", wild bore stew, which is always a success. Now, you think where does she get wild bore from? Well, at the moment it is hunting season here and the hunt for wild bore is quite popular. There are...
Last weekend Spello celebrated its new olive oil with the Frantoi Aperti. Every year in November this event promotes Umbria's DOP extra virgin olive oil. The event dedicated to the new olive oil is called Oro di Spello: Spello's gold. Its 17th edition transformed this...
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