Life In Italy | Italian Food Forever https://italianfoodforever.com/category/life-in-italy/ Those who eat well, eat Italian. Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:43:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://italianfoodforever.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Life In Italy | Italian Food Forever https://italianfoodforever.com/category/life-in-italy/ 32 32 Olive Harvest 2022 https://italianfoodforever.com/2022/10/olive-harvest-2022/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:11:05 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=38305 This year, we had lots of help harvesting our olives as family members traveled to Umbria from the US and Canada to give us a hand. It is good because we had a great year, with more olives than usual to pick. In addition, the weather couldn’t have been better for the harvest, with temperatures...

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]]> Olive Harvest 2021 https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/11/olive-harvest-2021/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/11/olive-harvest-2021/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:10:14 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=37680 It was so rewarding to travel back to Italy this fall to harvest our olives for oil this year. Last year due to Covid restrictions, we missed out and had to hire folks to pick our olives for us. This year’s olive harvest is not good for many, but we were lucky to have a...

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/11/olive-harvest-2021/feed/ 2 Friday Photos {October 22nd, 2021} https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/friday-photos-october-22nd-2021/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/friday-photos-october-22nd-2021/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:45:23 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=37631 It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks, which is why I missed posting photos last Friday. We took a quick trip to Venice with the pups, visited Trevi’s Festival of Black Celery and Sausage Festival, and had an amzing truffle meal in Trevi at San Pietro a Pettine. The trip to Venice needs it’s...

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/friday-photos-october-22nd-2021/feed/ 5 Photos From Italy {October 8th, 2021} https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/photos-from-italy-october-8th-2021/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/photos-from-italy-october-8th-2021/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:48:23 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=37521 It has been two long years since I have been able to post photos from Italy, but I’m back, even if it is just for one short month. I arrived in Italy a week ago, and we started my first week by viviting the monthly outdoor antique market in Pissignano. Next we headed to Montefalco...

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2021/10/photos-from-italy-october-8th-2021/feed/ 1 Our 2019 Le Marche Getaway https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/our-2019-le-marche-getaway/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/our-2019-le-marche-getaway/#respond Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:07:24 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=34400 For the past two years, we have changed our time spent in Italy from one six month stay to two-three months stays one in the spring and one in the fall. We have also tried to fit in short trips, even just an overnight one, to some destination outside of Umbria as often as possible....

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/our-2019-le-marche-getaway/feed/ 0 Friday Photos From Umbria ~ November 8th, 2019 https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/friday-photos-from-umbria-november-8th-2019/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/friday-photos-from-umbria-november-8th-2019/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:05:58 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=34274 Fall is a great time to visit Umbria as the weather is wonderful, and there are festivals every weekend celebrating everything from white truffles to black celery. Often there are so many festivals taking place each weekend that you have a choice of which one appeals to you more. We recently visited Pietralunga for the...

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/friday-photos-from-umbria-november-8th-2019/feed/ 0 Olive Harvest 2019 https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/olive-harvest-2019/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/olive-harvest-2019/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:49:55 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=34234 We just completed our olive harvest last week, and although the quantities of olives this year were thirty percent less than last year, our olives were healthy (no olive fly), and we ended up with ninety liters of gorgeous cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. We have three different varieties of olives, which give the final...

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]]> https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/11/olive-harvest-2019/feed/ 1 Our Prosecco Road Adventure 2019 https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/10/our-prosecco-road-adventure-2019/ https://italianfoodforever.com/2019/10/our-prosecco-road-adventure-2019/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:16:55 +0000 https://italianfoodforever.com/?p=34107 Since we spend a total of around six months total time in Italy each year, we like to take a few trips from our home base here in Umbria and explore other regions of Italy as much as we can. Last month we spent a wonderful five days in Puglia with family, and just last...

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