Part-time Italian

A distracted American, an Abruzzo vacation home.
What could go wrong?

At Home in Fossacesia

Around Abruzzo

Around Italy

Jan 27
5 min

The Accidental Miscreant

As I've mentioned earlier, Italians love to scold. They'll shake their heads, wag their fingers, cluck their tongues at you for all kinds...

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Dec 28, 2019
3 min

The importance of buon giorno

I've just been looking through old notes about my experiences years ago in Florence, when I took an 8-week crash course in Italian gramm...

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Nov 23, 2019
6 min

Harvest Boon

My visit to Fossacesia this fall was full of wonderful surprises. The surprise of having friends here who only months ago were strangers ...

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Nov 11, 2019
1 min

Down with the sun, up with the color

Well, I’m just back from 12 days in Fossacesia and recovered from a 24-hour post-flight bug. (Thanks again, bacterial convention that is ...

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Oct 11, 2019
2 min

Rigatoni & Ceci al Curry

This unusual and simple pasta dish is one of my favorites. There’s a bit of Moorish influence in the Italian kitchen, and the Abruzzo kit...

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About

I’m a New Yorker with one toe in Italy, having bought a small vacation home in Abruzzo 12 years ago. So I’m a visitor in a somewhat familiar land and a homeowner on pretty unfamiliar ground.

Part-time resident, part-time tourist, I’ve landed in Italy more times than I can count.

I’m no longer breathlessly besotted by the country; nor am I at all indifferent to its charms.

These are postcards of my experiences. I hope they’ll be of interest to other part-time Italians, however they be defined.

—Kathryn Casey

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