Basilicata: “Italy’s Best-Kept Secret” (Part One)
Basilicata, also known by its ancient name Lucania, is a region of southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. The region can be thought of as the “instep” of boot-shaped Italy, with Calabria...
Vacation Rental Cooking Tips
An article by a former chef suggesting how to make cooking on vacation safe and enjoyable.
Piana degli Albanesi: For its Albanian Culture and World’s Best Cannoli
If you still play “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”, an educational video game first released in 1985, I bet you won’t be able to locate “Hora e Arbëreshëvet” on the world map. I can now, but only because I visited there in mid-July. Upon arrival and during a...
The Best of Bari
During the past few years Puglia has become one of Italy’s touristic hotspots thanks to its delicious food, wines, and olive oil, multi-culture history (Greek, Roman, and Swabian), folk traditions like the pizzica (a frenzied local dance), beautiful white sandy...
KENNY DUNN: THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF “EATING EUROPE”
Kenny Dunn grew up in Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, a suburb north of Philadelphia. With a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and finance from Penn State University and a Master’s in development management from American University in Washington D.C. in 1997 Kenny founded...
A Decadent Tea For Two: Ritz Paris
For 120 years, The Ritz Paris has been ranked among the most luxurious hotels in the world. It has been featured in novels, plays, and movies…Mademoiselle Chanel called it home for 34 years…it’s simply legendary. Since its opening almost two years...
DON’T MISS ROME’S LASTEST ATTRACTION
In keeping with the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, Rome is like a layer cake with monuments and art works dating from every period of history from 753 BC, when according to more than legend the Eternal City was founded by King Romulus, to the present. After...
The Art of the Braai: In search of authentic South African cuisine
Unable to tell a potjie from a bobotie, my wife and I arrived in Cape Town ready to eat. Armed with a list of must-try local specialties, we set out to explore the city in our favorite method: with our taste buds leading the way. As we sauntered down Cape Town’s...
All Roads Lead to Rome
Italy’s national newspaper, La Repubblica, has published guidebooks about Italy’s many regions since 2003. Its first and only guidebook in English is Roma Maxima: Stories, Places, and Secrets, Guidebook to an Eternal City. The first guidebooks to Rome, written for the...
MARJORIE SHAW: INSIDER’S ITALY ONLY A CLICK AWAY
I’ve lived in Rome for almost half a century but my connection to Italy goes back another ten years to 1957, when I boarded the SS Saturnia to travel to Naples, Pompei, Paestum, Rome, Turin, the Val Pellice, and Venice. My close friend Marjorie Shaw’s connection goes...