At Home : Letters from Italy at the Time of Coronavirus. Story Seven : Naples, Rome, Venice.
SABRINA IN NAPLES Sabrina is one of the most dynamic Italians I know, with flashing eyes, a ready smile, sharp intellect and an insatiable […]
Vinegar at the Time of Coronavirus
Insider’s Italy often books private visits with food artisans. One whom clients invariably say became a friend and revolutionized their understanding vinegar is Mariangela, the […]
Bergamo
Jason Horowitz is a Rome neighbor, a friend of many friends, someone I have wanted to meet for a long time after he wrote a […]
The Patrimony of our Elders
My friend Marcus, whom I went to school with in Rome, this morning sent me the link to a recording made yesterday in Bergamo, the […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story Six : the Veneto.
Today’s reports are from Venice and Verona, both the Veneto, a region which is not the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus epidemic but in terms of […]
Day 14
It has been two weeks now that Italy, the world’s center of active coronavirus cases with 50,418 cases at present – more than double the […]
Making Bread
My New York friend Lucy married Luciano, from a small town in the Abruzzi, in 1972. She is a classicist and a journalist, is […]
Day Ten
It is not easy to lock down in a small apartment with teenagers. And not for a day, or for a week, but for the […]
Buon San Giuseppe ! (Happy Saint Joseph’s Day)
I am republishing this because I have no new photos to share of succulent Saint Joseph’s day pastries from our pasticcerie. In these unspeakable days in […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story Five : With Two Lagotti Romagnoli.
This evening at 6 PM, several of my friends did not have the heart to take out their trumpets and pot lids with wooden spoons, […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story Four : Furore.
“It is such a delicate moment”. So wrote me this evening Debbie. I had said to her earlier how I felt that life had, in […]
A Purposeful Return to the Past
Come the liberation from this nightmare, the dogs of Italy will be skin and bones, as they are perpetually escorted on walks by stir crazy […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story Three : Civitanova Marche.
On day 5, Italians are realising to what extent they are creatures of habit. Now that some of the most precious daily rites are denied, […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story Two : Venice.
We are now four days into the surreal social experiment that is quarantining an entire country of 60.5 million Italians in their homes, this […]
At Home : Letters from Italy at the time of Coronavirus. Story One : Rome.
I hear it from clients every day, those who were planning their weddings, anniversaries, family travels, first time trips. Every trip was a […]
“Roma Ai Tempi del Coronavirus”
“I boil them. I take them home at the end of the day and when I am making my dinner I boil a pot of […]
Waiting with Italy, waiting for Italy
So much to say about the Coronavirus, which has circulated in much of the world for weeks if not months, and was first identified in […]