Ferragosto: not at work
Some Italians consider it the “real” New Year’s Day, in that it marks the beginning of the end of one season, and points towards the...
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Bales round and square
“What do you know about a field of wheat, a poem of profane love, or the fear of being taken by the hand. What do you know?” These wonderf...
Roses
"I may be shy, but Love gives me the courage to tell you that, ever since the day I first saw you, it’s always been May, and in May the world is...
The revenge of the tulips
Once upon a time, roses were the Italians’ most beloved flowers, the failsafe choice for every occasion. A birthday, an anniversary, for somethi...
Loving the cherry plum
In the Casentino area between Arezzo and Florence there is a wide valley, dominated by the castle of Romena on one side and the castle of Poppi o...
Easter in the kitchen
Let’s start with a truism. The good thing about Christmas is that it brings the family together, and maybe gifts us a bit of snow and some gorge...
Giant Fennel, Asphodel and Orchids
First of all, choose yourself a soundtrack. A waltz, with its lilting up-and-down motion, would be perfect. It might be Tchaikovsky’s Flower Wal...
Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two
In Italian, we normally spell out the whole year: two-thousand and twenty, for example. But recently, we’ve got into the habit of calling that y...
Our way of wishing you a Happy New Year
When we got together on 31 December 2020 to toast the new year, we all thought that the worst of the pandemic was behind us. A year on, the vacci...
September impression
More than any other, September is the month of transition. Technically speaking, two thirds of it is still summer, but our thoughts have taken a turn ...
Edible spring
È primavera svegliatevi bambine…. sang the great Alberto Rabagliati in the mid-twentieth century. Spring: the season of reawakening. Aft...
The Summer of St. Martin
“The Summer of St. Martin lasts three days and a bit” goes the Tuscan adage. In late autumn, there are usually three or four days in which...
Savoring the harvest
Few other moments symbolize the essence of the country life in such a clear, timeless and deeply rooted way as the vendemmia, the grape harvest. With ...
Vendemmia: a resounding word
September is significant: it’s the month of “resolutions”, of “starting afresh”, of “new goals” that we inte...
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