In the year 2000, our bathrooms became modernized. Tissues are of better quality – if someone doesn’t steal it – and the bathroom lights are usually not on a timer anymore. Most modern facilities now have automatic flushers (even though at times they might scare you off the seat like a high power Hoover vacuum… Read more »
Posts Categorized: I Love Lucia
More Bathroom stories: Using a Bidet
When traveling to Italy to work on our abandoned farmhouse in the 80’s, my neighbor Nina, upon my arrival and our customary cup of coffee together, would always ask: “So you’re here again, to add another bathroom. What do you Americans do in there?” My objective in the first 12 journeys across the sea was… Read more »
Seventy Years of Bathroom Experiences in Italy
After a year of blogging fun memories in Villa Lucia’s kitchen in Tuscany, I decided that in 2015 I will share bi-monthly some of my personal experiences in the bathrooms of Italy. This will be followed by bringing our readers into the bedrooms of Villa Lucia to share experiences of our guests without using names…. Read more »
Successful Truffle Hunt
Before starting our new season after a 5 month absence from Tuscany due to a family situation in California, I wish to note a wonderful group of fun attendees that ended our 2014 cooking week season. For many the highlight was the day of our most successful truffle hunt, 500 grams of white truffle. Leaving… Read more »
Meet Lucia
As a first-generation Italian, born in Connecticut and raised in a European household where old traditional values and customs prevailed, making fresh pasta was a daily activity. With an extended family of relatives from Italy, traditional food habits prevailed in our household. Fruits and vegetables grown in the family garden were canned every summer, and… Read more »
Italians will make Love anywhere!
Driving two couples back to the farm after an evening of culture, one gentleman expressed his need for a rest room. I could not think of anything available as we drove through the countryside. I suggested to go behind an old farmhouse by the side of the road, which he agreed to do. Shortly afterwards,… Read more »
Great Guests in our Tuscany Kitchen
Every week is fun that it is hard to determine any particular group that is the best. Our October cooking group of fifteen has to be one of the top for the year. Great people, lots of laughs, good food, great wines and stimulating conversations is hard to beat. Tom, one of the guests, shared… Read more »
Oxytocin and Sister Friends Across the Atlantic
A year ago I dedicated my first blog to my mother at age 100, and today we are celebrating her 101stbirthday. Unfortunately my mother- in -law that I considered my second mother passed away last month at the age of 106. God Bless These Ladies. This year I wish to dedicate my blog to all… Read more »
Fun in Italy with my Sister-Friends
Just spent two wonderful weeks traveling alone with my 13 year old granddaughter Laila. From Rome to Abruzzo to our Tuscany farm followed by a fabulous week with friends at their Tuscan seashore home before going off to romantic Venice. Their daughter Michelle joined us and then led us to a new and exciting experience … Read more »
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