On July 30th, 2011, THE SAINT PAUL FARMERS MARKET…
…was founded in 1853 back when streets where dirt in these parts and has since been relocated a few times before landing at it’s current downtown location which…
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On July 29th, 2011, EMILY LACY AT THE WALKER WITH MACHINE…
…was the happy surprise of the day – as I caught my folk-singing friend‘s last performance (involving layers of gorgeous vocals live and delayed echoing through the cold…
On July 28th, 2011, CIAO ROMA, CIAO, CIAO, CIAO…
…was sad to say this morning at 10:15am as we took off from Fiumicino, USA bound for a couple of weeks before returning to bounce around Europe for…
On July 27th, 2011, THE STREETS OF ROME…
…were savored today on this, my last day living in the city, with last bike rides to last interviews – today near Piramide – for the Roma Mangia…
On July 26th, 2011, A NEW HOME FOR THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…
…on the ground of the former parking lot at the Ex-SNIA community center – a vast abandoned industrial complex east of Termini being reclaimed by trees and meadows…
On July 25th, 2011, A FAREWELL ROMAN ROOFTOP DINNER…
…last night, cooking for my local Roman friends, was the best way to say goodbye – to them, to the city, and to the garden, which was picked…
On July 24th, 2011, TORICELLA IN SABINA…
…near Rieti in the Sabine hills north of Rome is the location of the country house that our artist friend Emiliano Maggi partly grew up in – and…
On July 23rd, 2011, INTERVIEWS OFF VIA APPIA…
…for the Roma Mangia Roma book take us this morning to a house in the most remarkable location on extensive grounds covered with thick woods, picturesque meadows, modest…
On July 22nd, 2011, Y.A.P. AT MAXXI…
…is the Young Architects Program originated at NYC’s PS1 and now a new summer fixture at Rome’s MAXXI, where young Roman architects have created rolling mounds of lawn,…
On July 21st, 2011, PIGNETO…
…is the working class but now newly cool-ish youthful-ish (for this city at least) neighborhood of Rome, just beyond Termini and Porta Maggiore, where word is that things…
On July 20th, 2011, TREVIGNANO ROMANO…
…is the village overlooking Lake Bracciano north of Rome where we traveled this afternoon to interview Massimo at Agriturismo Acquaranda, for the Roma Mangia Roma book, to hear…
On July 19th, 2011, SCANDRIGLIA…
…in the Sabina of Lazio was the destination of our morning road trip to visit Oretta Zanini de Vita (the font of inspiration and information regarding cucina Italiana…
On July 18th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEWS #18-21…
…took us to a family of three generations living in a newish housing development about 8 km south of central Rome – still within the Grande Raccordo Anulare,…
On July 17th, 2011, SPERLONGA…
…was my last minute destination of choice this morning to escape the city for a day, biking to Termini and hopping on a train to take me to…
On July 16th, 2011, ITALIAN DEBT…
…and financial woes are making international news, with austerity plans in the works (here is an Guardian editorial by my political hero from Puglia, Nichi Vendola), and this…
On July 15th, 2011, ‘HUDDLE’ BY SIMONE FORTI…
…the 1961 piece consisting of a small group of dancers assembled into a huddle upon which one dancer will occasionally climb in different ways, was casually but energetically…
On July 14th, 2011, THE SCHMELA HAUS…
…the marvelous Dusseldorf puzzle-like brutalist modernist masonry vertical structure from 1971 well known as the site of Joseph Beuys projects from the 70’s and early 80’s, designed by…
On July 13th, 2011, HINKEL BÄCKEREI…
…is the best bread in Düsseldorf according to a few of the market farmers I have asked (in a country where people take their bread very very seriously),…
On July 12th, 2011, DÜSSELDORF…
…with welcome chilly drizzly weather – after enduring a few sweltering days rubbing up against sweaty sun-burnt tourists in the sticky blazing Venetian sun – is where I…
On July 11th, 2011, FONDAZIONE CINI…
…on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore is where I have come to visit an Italian designer friend (working with Michele de Lucchi on one of his…