Month: October 2016

Blog Post Photo, Phyllis, Red Wine Toast, La Carbonara, Monti, Rome, Italy
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Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks

Over last weekend we were sitting by our little antique electric fireplace with its glowing glass “coals” reminiscing, sipping wine and reading the entries in my Rome journal from last October.  We spent our Thanksgiving  there wandering the Jewish Ghetto and having lunch at Da Giggetto.  Quite honestly, we are missing being there so much. […]

Blog Post Photo, Thanksgiving in Umbria, Wood Burning Oven
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A Canadian Thanksgiving

2008 was our first Thanksgiving away from home!   We had travelled to Italy with two friends and our plan was to celebrate Thanksgiving by cooking dinner in the “villa” near Lago Trasimeno in Umbria. My husband and I had  grocery shopped in Tuscany and Umbria two years earlier and knew beforehand that Italians eat […]