Bread and Oil
/Umbria is as ordinary, and extraordinary, as bread and oil. Let me tell you what I mean.
Read MoreStep into Spello, the Umbrian hilltown that reshaped my family and still shapes my writing. These reflections come from years of living among its olive groves, cobblestones, and fiercely kind neighbors—stories of belonging, blunders, beauty, and how a place can change you if you let it. For more tales from life in Umbria, join The Grapevine, where new chapters of this ongoing love story always land first.
Umbria is as ordinary, and extraordinary, as bread and oil. Let me tell you what I mean.
Read MoreA photoessay of the celebration of olive oil in Spello, Umbria.
Read MoreWebsite for Michelle Damiani, author of Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, the funny and heartfelt memoir of an American family living in Spello, as well as Santa Lucia, a page-turner set on the Umbria border.
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