Italian recipes, language, travel
Rich, robust, and flavorful, this Tuscan ragù is a magnificent mixture of meat, tomato sauce, and wine slowly cooked in a soffritto of onion, celery, and carrots served over tagliatelle. A winning pasta course that is rewarding and easy to make. If you are looking for the best Tuscan ragù meat sauce, then this authentic…
My Italian genealogy research reveals an amazing discovery and more questions in my quest to find my Italian roots Finding Angela is a sequel to my Italian genealogy research in Searching for Giuseppe. For the last 35 years, I have been consumed by discovering where my ancestors came from in Italy. Why is this important?…
My life-long quest to find the Italian birthplace of my great-grandfather I am searching for two people: Giuseppe and Angela. I have been looking for them for 35 years and I still can’t find them. Sometimes I get so close. But just when I am about to pin them down, they slip away, lost in…
What is the real name of this town? That depends on who you ask. Selva Gardena has three names: Italian, German, and Ladin are also the three official languages of this area which is part of Ladinia. What is Ladinia? Ladinia is a nation without a state in Northern Italy. This area played an important…
It’s time to go on a virtual trip again. Where are you? Are you out West like me and every day the air quality ranges from unhealthy to very unhealthy as these fires rage on? Or perhaps you are escaping from something else. Come with me and let’s explore Selva Gardena and the Dolomites. Hiking…
Let’s go to Puglia. Virtually. It’s August 2020 and we are in the middle of a pandemic. Americans can’t leave the country. My passport recently expired and there are 2 million people ahead of me in line. But let’s not let that stop us! We have the time right now to deepen our language skills…
