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FOOD & DRINK, WRITING · October 16, 2010

Cookbook Review: “Mamma Agata – Simple and Genuine” by Chiara Lima

Sometimes you happen across a cookbook that you know you'll treasure for the rest of your life. That's how I felt when I first looked through Chiara Lima's beautiful cookbook Mamma Agata - "Simple and Genuine" Italian Family Recipes. I've written many times here on Ciao Amalfi about my adventures ...

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FOOD & DRINK · October 4, 2010

A Taste of Paradise at Mamma Agata’s Cooking School on the Amalfi Coast

One afternoon not long ago I stepped into paradise. That’s really how it feels when you walk through the doors of the Mamma Agata Cooking School on the Amalfi Coast. The pretty ceramic tile sign outside the door says “The Hidden Treasure,” and as soon as I stepped inside I knew I had discovered one ...

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PHOTOGRAPHY · August 6, 2010

Photo Friday: Mediterranean Beauty

    For several years now I’ve been admiring this rooftop view looking out over the Bay of Salerno from Ravello. It’s surely a little slice of heaven! The intensely blue sea, simple white architecture and warm terracotta tiles are the very essence of Mediterranean beauty. Happy ...

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PHOTOGRAPHY · July 30, 2010

Photo Friday: Rainbow over Ravello

    It’s hardly rained at all over the past month, but when a good summer rain arrives it usually means we’re in store for a beautiful rainbow. Earlier this week I spotted this one, which arched all the way over Ravello and seemed to dip down into the sea. In Italian a rainbow is ...

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Ravello · January 27, 2010

Winter afternoons in Ravello

  The other day it was sunny so we went to Ravello to enjoy a walk and poke our noses around the Villa Rufolo gardens to see how they trimmed their hydrangea. The gardener there does wonderful things, so I try to learn as much as I can by observing the beautiful gardens. The hydrangea in my ...

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TRAVEL · September 29, 2009

Tempting Tuesday: Morning Boat Trip from Salerno to Amalfi

    As much as I love being out on a boat and watching the sun set along the Amalfi Coast, one of the most beautiful times to see the Amalfi Coast from the sea is early in the morning. The sun is bright and strong this time of year, but the cool evening breezes have blown away the ...

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What 31 days of January morning walks looks like. What 31 days of January morning walks looks like. It’s been gorgeous and windy and stormy and wild - and everything in between. Should I pick a different spot to take a photo a day next month?
Non Amalfi Coast question. Do you wake up in the m Non Amalfi Coast question. Do you wake up in the morning with music or a song in your head? I do nearly every morning and it’s curious to me what shows up. Usually it’s something I’ve been listening to, but sometimes it’s really random, like someone’s left the music room door slightly ajar in the brain. This morning it was a jaunty version of “Loch Lomond” from the 1940s sung by Maxine Sullivan. (You’d think that would be from the random category but I actually listened to it yesterday.) So that’s what was swinging about in my head as I took a walk early this morning. 🎶
Happy Burns Night! I love a country that has a hol Happy Burns Night! I love a country that has a holiday for their national poet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here’s one of my favorite poems he wrote.

Musing On The Roaring Ocean
by Robert Burns

Musing on the roaring ocean, 
Which divides my love and me; 
Wearying heav’n in warm devotion, 
For his weal where’er he be. 

Hope and Fear’s alternate billow 
Yielding late to Nature’s law, 
Whispering spirits round my pillow, 
Talk of him that’s far awa. 

Ye whom sorrow never wounded, 
Ye who never shed a tear, 
Care-untroubled, joy-surrounded, 
Gaudy day to you is dear. 

Gentle night, do thou befriend me, 
Downy sleep, the curtain draw; 
Spirits kind, again attend me, 
Talk of him that’s far awa!
After a wild and windy night, there’s a dusting After a wild and windy night, there’s a dusting of snow atop the mountains of the Amalfi Coast. ❄️
On January 1st, I started going out for an early m On January 1st, I started going out for an early morning walk, and it has quickly become my favorite part of the day. This morning—after four days of rainy and cloudy mornings—I watched sunrise over the Cilento coastline across the Gulf of Salerno. Late morning it started raining again and it hasn’t stopped. This little pocket of beauty was exhilarating!
After the storm as the sky clears. #Amalfi #CiaoAm After the storm as the sky clears. #Amalfi #CiaoAmalfi
Winter weather has arrived on the Amalfi Coast! Ou Winter weather has arrived on the Amalfi Coast! Outside there’s the roar of the rough sea and strong winds in the mountain valley. This photo was a moment of relative calm yesterday morning as the storm came in.
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