My mission is to share peaceful mountainous back drops with lush green foliage, history of foods as I know them, and some regional recipes. I will try to convey the love of the land and its fruits and hopefully plant a seed of exploration and adventure.
To help you learn a little history, food making lessons, and heritage along the way is a small gift to share with you and encourage you to step outside of the box lived in and open your eyes to a world outside of your own. Enjoy the history and rich heritage that mingles with love of life and insert it in your own life for a richer, fuller, experience. Move forward in life. Read. Savor. Enjoy. Dream. Take a chance. Make the dream a reality. Reinvent yourself when life falls apart. Climb above the chaos and revel in the peace. Open your mind to a whole new world. The glass is never half full or half empty. There is only room to add more possibility.
Italian cuisine is often linked to pizza, pasta, and wine. Though wonderful choices, they are only a speck of reality in a world full of fantastical, mouthwatering, creations. The culture in Italy centers on food and family. You can often witness “retired” men enjoying a coffee (un café) or expresso while conducting business at an outdoor café. Watch while friends join in laughter and smiles after work and discuss the evening’s plans over an aperitif of red wine, creamy cheeses, and savory sliced meats. Look through stone encased windows decorated in geraniums while families share recipes of hand-made pastas passed down from mother to daughter and walk along roads lined with olive groves nourished and brought to life through generations of men providing for their family and their futures. These are just small examples of this wonderful circle of life. Each food has reason, a time, and a season. Recipes are born of creativity, necessity, rebellion, hard times, and rejuvenation. Food is life. Life is family. All of it can be fun.
There’s a little something for everyone. Please be kind and remember, this is my experience and I was so enamored that I wanted to share it with anyone willing to listen. Each experience is unique and each of us remembers what was best suited to our own personalities. If you would like to join in this reality, another trip is being planned for the 2017 summer. For information on being a community traveler or student earning elective credits, please contact the Office of Continuing Studies at IPFW Fort Wayne.
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