"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"
Click here to download: Behind_the_magic_door.zip (5773 KB) "And behind door...
June, 17 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Back_to_business.zip (7973 KB) **Thanks to everyone for their tremendous...
April, 6 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
Click here to download: The_City_of_Water.zip (6919 KB) Una bella vista~ We were only...
February, 13 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Last week I ran into a friend from Mississippi and asked him how he was doing. In true Southern form he replied, “Blessed and encouraged.” I laughed because only...
December, 22 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Tis_the_Season....zip (3667 KB) The last tree~ Since my return from our Italian vacation at...
December, 16 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Cazzo~ In high school I studied French—well, it would be closer to the truth to say that I sat in a class for three years where the teacher and two other students spoke French, while the rest of us were just thankful to not have to take Spanish from the hateful Seńora. Regardless of one’s age, when learning a new language, one of the first tasks is to try to figure out how to cuss in that language. Remember how titillating the song lyric “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” was in the 1970s? Instantly millions...
December, 9 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Day_2--Roma.zip (8582 KB) Beyond words… There are...
November, 19 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Back_in_the_saddle_again....zip (3598 KB) Ah, Roma~ I returned late—very late—Sunday night...
November, 17 2009 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
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...
November, 4 2009 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
When in Rome... In a little more than a week, we will be in Rome and, although there are many reasons to be excited about going to Rome, the one thing that I look forward to the most is EATING in...
October, 21 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Looking for a great place to stay in Rome? via residenzareginella.it Every year I have the great good fortune to travel to Italy, which means a stay in Rome is inevitable. Rome, like any major metropolatin city, is bustling with activity 24/7; however, there is something unique about the Eternal City--as the name implies. New York City and London are youthful and glitzy with their Times Square and Piccadilly Circus. Paris has a sophistication about itself with the Eiffel Tower rising up from the river's...
October, 18 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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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