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Wine Bars “Bacari” of Venice, Italy
Wine Bar One of my favorite things to do on my recent visit to Venice was to take a meal at a wine bar. Not just a liquid meal! At wine bars they serve cicchietti, small bites, like Italian tapas....
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Osteria La Zucca in Venice Italy
La Zucca, Venice Italy Zucca means squash in Italian. Specifically those pumpkin-like green-skinned orange-fleshed squashes perfect for pasta filling, roasting, grilling, and all-around indulging in...
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Amalfi Coast. Yes. Paradise. Just got back!
Chef Paulette in Campania Me and a few wonderful ladies from Nashville took a trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast a couple of weeks ago. The beauty of the region fills your eyes, heart and soul at every turn....
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Food of the Magic Kingdom (Amalfi Coast)
Ravello at Villa Cimbrone One of the ladies that came on the trip to Italy – Bonnie — said she felt like she had visited a magic kingdom. I’d been to the area lots of times but it is ALWAYS a surprise...
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Video of Amalfi Coast
Ciao Tutti! Here’s a quick 1:30 video spotlighting our trip to the area in June. More to come. Dive in to the splendor!!
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What Makes This Water So Crazy?
The Aisle of Capri Acqua Pazza. Translation: Crazy Water. It’s the name of an Italian fish dish. As in Pesce all’Acqua Pazza. I’d heard of it for years, read recipes, but never cooked or ate it until...
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Where My Spaghetti Frittata Came From
My Apartment Building in Trastevere I just entered the address I lived at in Rome and got a street-view image from Google. That is so wacky! I lived there many years ago with a Roman woman named Enrica...
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Riviera Roasted Potato String Bean Pie
Baked Potato-String Bean Pie Mmmmm….good. I learned this recipe many years ago from a fearless, adventurous Ligurian woman named Bianca. She lived in a charming pink villa high atop the hills...
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Favorite Venice Restaurants
Venice Wow. Why am I always surprised by wonderful Venice? Each returning visit becomes a new revelation. The city without cars and trucks, with, instead, blue-lagoony canals and narrow walking lanes...
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My Paintings of Italy
Venice View My new obsession. When I’m not in the kitchen, I’m at the dining room table with paint tubes sprawled, aluminum pans for palettes, a small blue plastic colander to hold up one end of my...
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My Favorite Roma
first trip to Rome with family 1974 So it was in 1974 that I first went to Rome. My parents visited for the first time the year before and came back excited for my sister and I to experience the...
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The Tastiest Cauliflower Ever
cauliflower October. Time for cauliflower. Our local Nashville farmer’s market had piles of cauliflower at their Friday night market this weekend (and tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, broccoli, peppers,...
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Dreaming of Amalfi – Lemon Ravioli
Amalfi paining by Chef Paulette I just finished this painting of a view of Amalfi. When I’m deep in a painting of a beautiful Italian scene I feel myself in that place. I can even smell the air. Feel...
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Italian Drinks – Shortest Way to Get to the Boot
Italian drinks I have a lot of favorite Italian drinks, liquors, liqueurs. They all have distinctive flavors and assertive personalities. They are each built with the character of Italy. Sip any one of...
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Dreaming of Positano
Positano Maybe it’s the weather. Spring. That fresh air. Carrying the scents of baby leaves, buds about to burst, the planet’s new tip toward the sun. But I’ve got Positano on my mind. Positano There...
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Sicily = Home
rainbow at hotel in Ragusa Ibla My ancestors are from Sicily. My father’s parents from Ragusa. And my mother’s mother from Palermo. I’ve been to Italy countless times (really countless, because I have...
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Travel to Italy While Staying Home
Modica, Sicilia When I’m not in Italy, I’m in Italy in my dreams, in my imagination, in my thoughts, in my kitchen, and in my paintings. The country is part of my whole being and inspires so much of...
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Can I go back to Italy now?
our country hotel in Assisi I just got back from Italy and I want to go back right now. Piazza Navona, Roma Happens every time. It is never enough. Perhaps even living there is never enough (it wasn’t...
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Best Cooking Class in Venice
Piazza San Marco – Venice Some people shy away from Venice. They say it’s too crowded…too many tourists. There’s some truth to that. But there’s more truth here: Venice is like NO OTHER PLACE. It’s a...
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Secret Charming Fountain: Amalfi
Secret Charming Fountain in Amalfi Did you say it’s time to go to the Amalfi Coast? Hang on, let me get my hat! Amalfi Coast There is NOTHING like the Amalfi Coast. Beautiful towns balancing on...
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