50 Shades of Delicious: 2 Chewsy for the Catwalk

 This blog is all about the products we LOVED in Italy and on the flip side how Italian fashion went WRONG. Italian Products we Loved: Duff Beer which originally started as a fictional product on the T.V. series the Simpsons, but apparently  has been produced (probably illegally) in real life in Italy! Lisa and Gabi with their can of Coca-Cola Zero  Coca-Cola Zero which is a great compromise for us because Ro loves Coca-Cola, but FloJo prefers to not drink her calories in soda.  Zero was all over Italy, we just regret not picking up one of the Skyfall  bottles or cans to add to Ro's James Bond collection. Nutella  aka the spread of love.  FloJo first discovered this hazelnut chocolate spread while she was living in Spain while Ro traveled all the way to Paris to discover this little spread of heaven.  Europeans tend to eat it much like we Americans eat peanut butter.   While walking in the streets of Venice we ...

Our first glimpse of Orvieto amongst the Le Velette vines Town of Orvieto Harvest Time Le Velette  One of the movies we watched before coming to Italy was Under the Tuscan Sun.  It gave us a preview of what life in the Italian countryside might be like.  But honestly, how do you imagine a week in a Umbrian country house on the grounds of a centuries old Italian vineyard?  Add fourteen American women, the guest of honor celebrating her half century mark and throw in a farm yard cat and you've got a recipe for a very unforgettable experience. Birthday girl! The star of this Umbrian story is Ms Betsy Bruce who hatched the idea of inviting her friends to share in celebrating her half century mark.  She contacted her former tour guide of Rome, Cecilia, whose family has owned Le Velette Estate for several hundreds of years and arranged to rent one of the homes on the property and host her friends for an Italian birthday celebration. ...