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Twelve years ago we made the trek to Calitri traveling by train and bus to reach this town. A day and a half was not nearly long enough to really explore and we vowed to return and so we did. We flew to Bari, picked up a car and set off. As we left Puglia and […]
With the help of Katie Parla’s website and Carla Capalbo’s book The Food and Wine Guide to Naples and Campania we decided to travel to the town of Melito Irpino, located a little over an hour away from Calitri for lunch at Di Pietro. Little did we know when we programmed the information into the gps that we asked […]
It’s been a long time coming, but I can finally say that in just a few months we will be headed to Calitri. Since spending one night there 12 years ago I’ve been longing to return and really get to know the birthplace of my maternal grandparents. Both my grandfather and grandmother emigrated […]
It’s been six months since I was last in Italy. Leaving is never easy and not a day goes by that I don’t day dream about being there. As much as I am taken with Lucca and the Garfagnana area, I think a trip south is long overdue. I’ve been carrying Carla Capalbo’s book-The Food […]
I need to return to the birthplace of my grandparents in Calitri, located on a hilltop in the Avellino province of Campania. I hope I can find this red door again…
Do you dream of some day owning a home in Italy? Can you see yourself packing a few bags and heading off for a few months to your house in the countryside? Maybe you’ll stay for a year or perhaps decide to make Italy your new home. Well, that’s what Valerie and Bryan did. I’ve […]
Why didn’t I ever pay attention to what my grandmother was doing in the kitchen when I was younger? Back then all I was interested in was the meatball or two plucked from the pot of gravy (tomato sauce) that we were rewarded with while my grandmother toiled away. At the time I didn’t understand […]
We came upon this statue as we wandered around Calitri (the birthplace of my grandparents) during our very brief visit there a few years back. It was built in honor of those from this small hilltop town in the Avellino province of Campania who left their hometown in search of a better life. Many of […]
I was looking through my photos this morning when I came upon the all the pictures from our 2005 very brief trip to Calitri (in the Avellino province of Campania)-the birthplace of both of my grandparents. Back when we decided to visit Calitri, there was almost no information available on line. I struggled to find […]
I started going through the fridge and pulling out a little bit of this, a little bit of that. At first I had planned on doing a saute with zucchini and red bell peppers, but then I remembered a recipe that I had just torn out of a recent Food & Wine (Aug. 2010) magazine. […]
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