Archive for May, 2011
Come Mai?
Last weekend I traveled north to Florence, the city where my new life in Italy began. Well actually it began in Termoli, but that is another story entirely. I stayed in my old apartment and bounced around from bar patio to bar patio catching up with friends that I’d hardly spoken to since moving...
May 14th, 2011 | Blog | Read More
Announcing La Cucina at Gelso Bianco!
We are very happy to announce the opening of La Cucina at Gelso Bianco, our brand new cooking school. Spend a week in the kitchen of a beautifully restored Pugliese farmhouse and learn the culinary secrets of a deeply passionate and undiscovered region of Southern Italy.
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May 12th, 2011 | Uncategorized | Read More
The Boston Globe, April 24, 2011
Piety to Pyrotechnics at Easter Weekend
By Sharon Bloomfield
CISTERNINO — The air is crisp. The myriad greens of an Italian spring have burst forth. Today is Pasquetta, the day after Easter. Outside a church near Cisternino, in the Puglia region, the heel of Italy’s boot, a brass band is pulling...
May 5th, 2011 | Industry Buzz | Read More
Coastal Living, April 2011
The Other Side of Italy
photos by Annie Schlechter
Even Americans who have never traveled to Italy have a picture of it in their heads—romantic Rome, fashionable Milan, art-filled Florence, seductive Venice. But Puglia, on the Adriatic coast? That’s another...
May 5th, 2011 | Industry Buzz | Read More
Travel + Leisure, March 2011
Traditional Life in Puglia, Italy
“On a journey though the southern region of Salento, T + L discovers traditional life in Puglia, Italy”
By Michael Frank
My wife, Jo Anne, and I had decided to go to Rome with our new baby. She was seven weeks new. Lucia: bringer of light. She brought it...
May 5th, 2011 | Industry Buzz | Read More










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