The Art of Slow Living
Lifestyle·By Drusiano·2024-03-15
Rediscovering the pleasure of doing less, better.
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The F&D Pillars
Our three ways of living
Three lenses through which two Italian-Americans have come to understand the good life.
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Quality ingredients that transform everyday cooking.
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Sustenance·Italian Food Forever
A Tuscan bread soup so honest it embarrasses its more elaborate neighbors. Why the simplest things endure.
A Morning Ritual Worth Keeping
Lifestyle·By Drusiano·2024-03-05
How the first hour shapes the entire day.
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The Case for One Great Object
Indulgence·By Drusiano·2024-02-28
On owning less and choosing better.
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Indulgence·Italy Magazine
The crowds leave in September. What remains is the coast as it actually is — quieter, warmer, more itself.
Reading as a Practice
Lifestyle·By Drusiano·2024-02-20
Why returning to books is an act of self-care.
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The Quiet Luxury of Well-Made Linen
Indulgence·By Drusiano·2024-02-14
On the understated pleasure of fabric that improves with age.
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Neither fully Italian nor simply American. On the particular identity that forms when you bring one country to another.
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Sustenance·Italian Food Forever
A Tuscan bread soup so honest it embarrasses its more elaborate neighbors. Why the simplest things endure.
Indulgence·Italy Magazine
The crowds leave in September. What remains is the coast as it actually is — quieter, warmer, more itself.
Lifestyle·The Florentine
Neither fully Italian nor simply American. On the particular identity that forms when you bring one country to another.
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Occasional notes on what we are eating, drinking, reading, and discovering. Never more than twice a month.