Posted in Calitri, friends on August 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Where did the week go? Time for reflecting on the good in our lives.
I am grateful for my friend, L. who I met through her blog Cucina Cara Mia. How wonderful to find someone from a similar background (Italian-American from NY) who loves to cook and is passionate about all things Italian and lives close [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, travel on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know there are lot of you out there that think like me. You want to be in Italy. In fact, truth be told, you might even be a little obsessed with it-reading everything you can, looking for travel deals even though you know you are not going to be traveling there any time soon, [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, family on May 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today on the way to my Italian lesson I listened to a new CD that I ordered- a mix of songs by various Italian singers. There was one song that I really loved and so I grabbed the cover to see who it was and his name was Vinicio Capossela. His [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, friends, travel on May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even though I won’t be spending time in my grandparents’ hometown of Calitri this summer, I can get a good glimpse of what’s going on there by checking out Jason’s blog- Un Calitrano Sordo. Earlier this week Jason arrived in Calitri from his home in Arizona. He’ll be living and working there for the next [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, family, travel on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think back to our very brief visit to Calitri three and a half years ago. This hill town in the Avellino province of Campania was the birthplace of both my mother’s parents. As a child I knew they were from Italy, but I was too young to ask them about where they had come [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, family, travel on December 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For such a small town, everything that I write about Calitri seems to generate a lot of interest. Calitri, for those of you who haven’t read all I’ve written (hey, what’s with that?), is a small hill town in the Avellino province of Campania. My grandparents were both from this town and came to the [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, family on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have very vivid memories of my grandfather, although I didn’t know him very long. He died when I was only eleven. My grandfather, Lazzaro, left his family in Calitri, Italy and came to the USA at the age of eighteen. Like thousands of others before him, he traveled by boat-the SS Koenigen Luise-and [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, travel on August 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Our stay in Calitri was much too brief, but we knew we would be back again. I had gone to see the place where my grandparents were born and really should have planned on staying longer, but not knowing much about the area (and not having a car), we had only planned an overnight. Unfortunately [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, cooking, food on July 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Back in October when I started this blog one of the first things that I wrote about was trying to replicate my grandmother’s hand made pasta. She made the most incredible hand rolled pasta and although I can make fairly decent noodles, I long for her “jingles” (our family name for macaroni shape). I followed [...]
Posted in Calitri, Italy, travel on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been two and a half years now since we visited Calitri and I wonder when we will be able to get back there again. I’ve mentioned before that just three years ago when we were planning our trip there, we could hardly find any information on the internet. Thankfully we were able to locate [...]
