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Traditional Meal In A Farmhouse Restaurant

I’d passed by Il Casolare (the farmhouse) many times before I finally stopped to have lunch there. I’d heard good things about it from my friends in Loreto but I never tried it. Because it’s on the route of a walk I do regularly in order to try to stay healthy, stopping there and eating [...]

Penne

The first time I heard of the town of Penne in Abruzzo I thought that explains the name of the pasta!  I was wrong.  Penne, the pasta, is named for its shape, pen-like, in fact the word penne means pens in English.  (Penna is the singular.)   If you are interested in knowing more about [...]