Tag: Elena Ferrante

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