The olive trees are everywhere you look — they cover the hillsides of Chianti, line the streets of the small towns, decorate the gardens of the ancient villas and border the vineyards all over this region. Over the course of our first week here, we have learned the importance of olive oil to the Chianti […]

It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Louise, mom and me that we LOVE food. We love cooking it. We love eating it. We love serving it. We love talking about it. And we LOOOOVE learning how to cook new things. So when we began to plan this trip, an Italian cooking […]

The first big highlight of our Tuscan adventure occurred on Tuesday: We took a private, all-day tour of the Chianti wine and olive region with a local guide. Miriam, a French/Italian who grew up in Livorno on the east coast and spent a great deal of her young life in Paris, showed up in the […]

We made it! The journey which began with a crazy idea two years ago…and after I was diagnosed with uterine cancer in December became my motivation for getting through all the crap related to cancer treatments and recovery…started on Saturday in South Carolina and ended with our arrival in Tavernelle Val di Pesa, a small […]