Cooking School Tours In Italy with Mama Margaret & Friends

Longing for a cooking and wine tour in an untouristed town in southern Italy where you feel part of local life? On our cooking, wine and culture tour in Modica in south east Sicily, you stay in a B&B in the historic centre that was the home of your cooking teacher’s grandma. You cook some […]

This healthy, easy, colourful recipe comes from the Barilla pasta company’s site at barilla.com that’s full of great Italian recipes. Serves 7 1 box Barilla® whole grain spaghetti 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 clove garlic 1 cup white onion chopped 2 cups zucchini diced 2 cups yellow squash diced 1 bunch asparagus coarsely […]

Have you been longing to stay in a smaller southern Italian town off the tourist track for a week or two or three and experience real local life? Not a town on the Amalfi Coast where tourists flock en mass and everyone seems to speak good English. You want a town where you speak your halting […]

If you’re like me, you’ve devoured most of Italy’s best known mystery series:  Andrea Camilleri’s tales of food loving Ispettatore Montalbano in Sicily, Donna Leon’s novels of family man Commissario Brunetti in Venice and Michael Dibdin’s stories that take nomadic detective Zen all over Italy. Where to go to satisfy this continual hunger for more […]

Taormina and Bay of Naxos with Mt. Etna in background Cooking, Wine and Pampering at a villa hotel above Sorrento: special discounts for 6 night tours in May. Save 300 Euros or about $450 U.S. or $480 Canadian! Cooking with Mammas, Wine & Olive Oil in Southern Puglia: explore towns on the Mediterranean and Adriatic […]

What are your favourite travel rituals in Italy? Many of us Italophiles return over and over to places in Italy that our heart really feels connected to or that make us recall beautiful memories or that fascinate us every time. Cities, country towns, hotels, beaches, walking paths, hills, museums, markets, shops, restaurants. The New York […]