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BEYOND THE PASTA

"Travel and Food Experiences in Italy~ their influences on my American life, plus photos and recipes, too!" by Mark Leslie, author "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family"

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  • Rome, Verona and now Vicenza...

    Ciao tutti,

    We are in Italy and, although it has been a bit chilly and rainy we are having a wonderful trip.

    I have tried to email a photo via Richard's iphone, but alas, no such luck. I have eaten a lot of wonderful things and in Verona the most exotic thing has been horse...yes, horse. It was smoked--does that help? Actually, it was really good and just to let you know that I have standards, I passed on trying the donkey. The waitress tried to make it sound appetizing by making donkey noises, but that didn't help. I passed on the "ass."

    The gnocchi (potato dumplings) with duck was wonderful, the baccalà (salted cod) sered with polenta was delicious and I have yet to have a bad meal.

    Tomorrow, Thursday, we head to Padova (Padua) and hopefully the rain will stop. Today in Vincenza it has been rainy and cold. Yesterday, in Verona, the weather cleared and it was truly pleasant--and the sun was shining.

    The people have been lovely and my minimal Italian seems to be getting me by--with Richard's help when my skills fail me.
    I will try again to write while in Venice, but the photos will have to wait until I return to the states on Nov 15th.

    We've just had proscecco and some chips and I think we are back to the farm to take a bit of a nap before heading out to find a ristorante for dinner.
    I wonder what animal we'll get to try tonight? For all of you who are vegetarians, I am sorry--but the meat here, regardless of its origin, is incredible. The Italians certainly have had enough time to perfect food--thousands of years I do believe.

    Ciao, ciao, ciao e a presto!
    Mark
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    Nov 05, 2009
    Kris Kendrick said...
    Ciao, ciao, ciao! Glad you are having a wonderful time! Can't wait to see pictures...

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    Mark Leslie works in professional theatre as a stage manager and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Currently he is busy working with Gemelli Press on his first book "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family." http://beyondthepasta.com

    Every year, Mark vacations in Italy and lives to eat his way through every plate of pasta and cone of gelato placed before him. In 2005, he had the good fortune to live for a month in Viterbo, Italy with the Stefani family. There he took cooking lessons from Nonna, the grandmother of the family, and Italian language lessons from Alessandra, the mother. That experience is the basis of his first book "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language, & Life with an Italian Family." SEE DETAILS ABOUT THE BOOK: http://mark-leslie.net/we-have-a-publisher

    THEATRICAL CREDITS:
    Mark is in Winona, MN working on GRSF's production of COMEDY OF ERRORS. Recently, he wrapped up LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and AIDA for Opera Birmingham in Alabama. Last September, he stage managed CABARET at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head, SC. He also worked at the Arts Center in 2005 on its production of Evita. This past summer, he worked in Minnesota on Great River Shakespeare Festival’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Over the past 22 years, Mark’s regional theatre credits include: Denver Center Theatre Company (White Christmas, Noises Off, and a reading of a new adaption of The Unsinkable Molly Brown directed by Kathleen Marshall and authored by Dick Scanlon), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (resident stage manager on over 65 productions), Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival (D. Boone by Marsha Norman), Arizona Theatre Company (Amadeus, Loot, and Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Arthur Faria), and Maine State Music Theatre (Phantom, South Pacific, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cages Aux Folles, and the world premiere of Chamberlain).

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