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Buzzing back to Italy
Trip Advisor #8 in Siena
Gina's Cookbook
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Spring is in full swing and Gina is 'buzzing back to Italy' for the year.  Check out the things she'll be doing as she returns this week below and in her blog.  

  

Buon appetito! 

Gina and Mary 

Buzzing back to Italy

I'm finally heading back to Italy this week, after a long, very productive and fun winter in the US. I miss my friends, I miss my house but most of all I just miss looking at Italy. The wheat fields are high and green now and it waves like the sea as the wind blows. The wisteria is in bloom, long purple trails on thick gnarled trunks. The roses are just starting to blossom and I'd be heartbroken to miss them.

 

Here's what I'm going to do as soon as I get back:

Have a cappuccino.   Cappucino smiley face 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at the artichokes growing outside my bedroom window on the terrace next door.

Artichokes ready for picking  

Start cooking again in the old mill!

Cooking class Sept 2011 Randy

How long IS that pasta sheet?!

 

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Trip Advisor - Gina's Cooking Classes

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Ecco La Cucina Cookbook

gina's cookbookGina's cookbook is a collection of traditional Tuscan cooking, featuring dishes of the Siena area. 

 

Hardcover with spiral binding, the book is functional and easy to use in the kitchen.  

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