RESTAURANT WITH A VIEW
In Agliano, Piemonte, located in northern Italy you can enjoy the spa - and the view isn’t too bad either.
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Peasant recipes from Piemonte are world famous - they also do fancy just fine
Read moreFINDING YOUR ELIXIR
“Expectations were exceeded on a weekly basis in Prague. A neighborhood store confirmed suspicions that elusive Bohemian ideals might be hidden behind patterns of another kind. I found a retailer where I could mix my own elixir of scents and oils with various olive oils, specialty liqueurs, brandies, and whiskies of all kinds. After making a purchase the young saleswoman wrote the name in cursive with a large white pencil on the artisan styled clear bottles.
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Why hello, New Year!
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WHY I NAMED MY DOG GODOT.
Godot did arrive. Post party. When I’d do the dishes, think about people’s stories, relive the memories… Godot did arrive.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN EUROPE
W/Yumi Katsura, the doyenne of Japanese wedding dress; once upon a time. I went to her couture show, then to dinner at a night club in the Marais, in the 4th in Paris. She sat at the head table, alone, everyone else, her designers, choreographers, sat around her, it was surreal. I asked if she’d take a photo - she was so cool. Prince had performed at this venue the night before.
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THIS MIST IS LOVELY FOR THE WINE AND EYES
The nebbia, the fog of Piemonte is atmospheric and everywhere.
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THE FOG, THE SHROUD...
‘nebbia’, the fog of Piemonte, a shroud that buries the plains - only trees and steeples pierce thru - i miss it
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LEAVING THE ORDINARY WORLD
that’s what it felt like living in a new region of Italy, new home, lifestyle living amongst people so attached to their land they make it appear magical
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STOPPARD ON TIME
Tom Stoppard just died - he became English - yet forever Bohemian. His plays, writing, well known but this little paragraph: “What an extraordinary idea. People are not the world, they are merely a recent and transitory product of it. The world is ten million years old. If you think of that period condensed into one year beginning on the first of January, then people do not make their appearance in it until the thirty-first of December; or to be more precise, in the last forty seconds of that day”
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KENNETH TYNAN ON MILES DAVIS
Maybe Jazz was America’s finest export, so here’s a coupla slices from Kenneth Tynan’s profile on Miles Davis: …the Spanish have a word, ‘duende’. It has no exact English equivalent, but it denotes the quality without which no flamenco singer or bullfighter can conquer the summit of his art. The ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion to an audience of strangers with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint; Miles Davis had ‘duende’
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PIEMONTE; THE SECRET THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD
In “Personal Legends of Piemonte” I invite you into the lives of 12 Piemontesi, along with a short story to introduce each interview. What a cast of characters. Work, family, tradition, magic and ‘campanilismo’ shape these people’s lives. A region, a tribe so attached to their land they make it appear magical. Their world may seem simple, some lives may even feel like a fairy tale - yet this is their reality.
Read morePIEMONTE; THE SECRET THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD.
In “Personal Legends of Piemonte” I invite you into the lives of 12 Piemontesi, along with a short story to introduce each interview. What a cast of characters. Work, family, tradition, magic and ‘campanilismo’ shape these people’s lives. A region, a tribe so attached to their land they make it appear magical. Their world may seem simple, some lives may even feel like a fairy tale - yet this is their reality.
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