Our friends and neighbors at Locanda Demetra started their farm-to-table restaurant a few years back. It used to be easy to show up and get a table. Not so a...

If you've never eaten Bolognese tortellini in brodo you simply must add this experience to your culinary bucket list.

We bought Villa Palazzetta because of its incredible location only five minutes walk from the historic city center. We also bought it because of the 270 degr...

In March our first official guests visited Villa Palazzetta. The note they left in our guestbook says it all. But Maryellen, one of the guests, took time to w...

When we restored Villa Palazzetta one of the things that was on the top of our list was a real wood-burning pizza oven. Fortunately our Italian architect, Ma...

Last October we had our first olive harvest as the new owners of Villa Palazzetta. The harvest took place in late October. We harvested more than 2500 kilos...

Ever heard of Risotto Milanese? Well, here's the real thing from Milan along with a beautiful plate of ripe cherry tomatoes and burrata. Who could ask for more?