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La Passione ! (A Roman Terrace Garden)
Take one reasonably nice but uninspired Roman terrace, with ten years of accumulated, cluttered pots and four untended olive trees. Top terrace, before a plan Big Terrace, before a plan Add plants –...
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Letter from Rome
All over Italy, the swifts, swallows and martins fill the morning and evening skies with their melodious cries. It is early summer in Italy and how absolutely magnificent it is. I wish you were here,...
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An Evening with Carlo Noro
Last week’s dinner organized by Slow Food here in Rome was among the best meals we have ever eaten anywhere. Both Carlo Noro’s remarks about biodynamic agriculture and his fresh produce, which was the...
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Winter in Italy – Carnevale !
Rome has not the elaborate and extraordinary costumes and masks of Venice (we’ll post photographs from a prior trip in another blog) but this year Rome was about the only place in Italy where foul...
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Memories and Holidays : The Presepio
Me at nine months with the presepio Everyone who celebrates Christmas has Christmas memories. Mine go back more than 40 years and are nearly all memories in Rome. And most of them involve the...
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