February 18, 2014 Discreet Charms of Winter Tags: Bar Tuscher Bramasole Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend The Story of a New Name The Tuscan Sun Cookbook Trattoria Fettunta zeppole We’re taking two winter trips to Cortona this year. Restoration at Bramasole keeps raging on, and I admit that I keep adding projects, such… More
January 14, 2014 Befana the Witch Has Long Since Gone Tags: 1970 A House in Sicily Cholanad coconut cake Daphne Phelps Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth Spenser Jane Gardam Jeff Minnich La Befana Luke Barr My Brilliant Friend Provence Rhonda Riley Rijsttafel spanakoppitas Starting Over The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope The Queen of the Tambourine The Signature of All Things Befana did not leave me any lumps of coal so I must have been good in 2013. I have a rag-doll Befana figure that… More