Mailboxes as Decor
Renovating your house or building? Don’t forget that curbside decor is just as important as interior decor. Spend some time looking at the wide choice of mailboxes to find the…
A trip to Via Corradini & Mushroom Pate
I’m really not fond of pate..are you? But I am always on the lookout for ways to make a non-traditional type of pate. At our country house in Abruzzo-we have…
Food is Fashionably Chic..in Rome
Who is it that told me that food and fashion have nothing in common? It must have been someone that has never experienced the center of Rome on a…
Farfalle with Melon….No Tomatoes Here!
copyright 2010, Maria Liberati/art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc Have you ever thought of substituting melon for tomatoes in your pasta dish? Try this refreshing, cool, summertime pasta dish.Hope you can get…
Cooking from Scratch
copyright 2010, Maria Liberati/art of living, PrimaMedia,inc Last month while in a supermarket in Italy, I was approached by an Italian girl in her twenties.. after staring at the rice…
The Basic Art of Making Cold Pasta
copyright 2010 Maria Liberati/ art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc. As temperatures hover over 100 in most of the USA a cold dish of pasta is a perfect way to have A…
Authentic Vintage Roof Restoration
One of my favorite ‘hobbies' is restoring old buildings or old homes, recreating that vintage feel but in a new way. One of the most difficult things to do is…
Thomas Jefferson..Monticello..inspired by Italy
COPYRIGHT 2010, Maria Liberati/art of living PrimaMedia,Inc As we are enjoying our evening meal alfresco with fireworks bursting below us…patriotic thoughts of one of my favorite signers of the…
Cucinami & Cool Lemon Gelato
copyright 2010, Maria Liberati/art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc To express my love for Cooking,nothing is more appropriate than an Italian word-Cucinami (made up of the words for kitchen-cucina- and Love-Ami) Cucinami! But…
Pots and Pans..or Art in the Kitchen
Love that clanging overhead in my kitchen..pots and pans hanging over my island. in the center of the kitchen and the shiny glistening steel and brass bottoms that accent. But…