Saluti da Orvieto… Food, Wine & Conversation!!!
Here in the little town of Baschi....right outside of Orvieto for The Basic Art of Italian Cooking school and the one coming in September. Last night, we had a wonderful…
Buon Capo D'anno (Happy New Year)
copyright 2008-2009, Maria Liberati The Basic Art of Italian Cooking I will be spending New Year's Eve (known as San Silvestro) and New Year's Day here in Italy between Abruzzo…
Umbria Jazz and the bubbly…
Umbria jazz festival is in town (Orvieto). This year the festival is highlighting gospel music and the music of Duke Ellington..but one never knows who will show up. One year-Sting-who …
The Feast of the Seven Fishes-Real or Myth?
Buon Natale as I am writing here from my office high in the mountains of Abruzzo. Yesterday was a whirlwind of Christmas celebrations-from Rome to Umbria and Abruzzo. The culinary…
Orvieto & Tagliatelle al Fresco
Our November newsletter will be released soon so many of you will be receiving it shortly, but we are going to post excerpts of the newsletter here. We are…
How to Choose Olive Oil
Copyright, 2008, Maria Liberati Editor: Suzanne Russo The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm https://www.marialiberati.com In my travels in the past few weeks here in Italy I…
Picking Plums, Fresh Pasta and Palio of Siena
copyright,2008,Maria Liberati The Basic Art of Italian Cooking byMaria Liberati tm As I began my morning very early yesterday to finish picking our fresh plums and 'susine' (another type of plum)-…
Todi-elegant Medieval city
As I am working on the preserves this weekend from the fresh plums in our farm and testing out some new focaccia recipes, I wanted to send you a photo…
Visiting Umbria..
Stay tuned.. the editorial staff of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking will be visiting the region of Umbria, a vineyard, cooking school, agriturismo, olive grove and more. We will…