HeyJaredShayna Terese Taylor
The bitterness is the medicine. Food as medicine, gut healing and slow living, from a woman who left LA for the Italian countryside and had to rebuild most of it.
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What It Actually Takes to Buy Property in Italy, And Who You Need on Your Team (opens the original)
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Ciao bella.We start picking the olives on Tuesday, so this week has been all logistics and driving back and forth between Florence and Umbria, and I am the particular kind of tired that comes from wanting something to go well.I have my fresh collagen matcha in hand as I write this, if you’d like to go make one and come join me. Golden Ratio LatteI want to talk about something people ask me constantly, in my DMs, in the comments, at dinner, everywhere.How do you actually buy a place in Italy.Beca
The Peppery Kick in Good Olive Oil Has a Name, And Why I Give Up Bottles to Get It (opens the original)
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Ciao bella.Six days from now, on the 29th, we start picking the olives.For anyone new here, I own a farm in Umbria with over a thousand ancient olive trees on it, and once a year we take the fruit off all of them and press it into cold pressed, single estate extra virgin olive oil that is certified organic under both the EU scheme and USDA. One harvest, a couple of weeks of work, and then whatever comes out of those trees is all there is until the following autumn.I am based in Florence at the m
The Fall Equinox Is Wednesday, And Why the Emotions Coming Up Right Now Are Not a Bad Mood (opens the original)
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Ciao bella.I am coming off one of the most vulnerable and emotionally intense weeks I have had in a very long time, the kind where people would ask me an ordinary question and I would just start crying, and I took the entire weekend off from everything so I could actually rest and feel and process the energy that was moving through me instead of pushing it down and getting on with my day, which is also why this letter is reaching you on a Monday instead of a Sunday. I am feeling a lot better now
How I Healed My Relationship With Food, And the Childhood Cereal I Rebuilt Because of It (opens the original)
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Ciao bella.When I was a kid I ate cereal like it was a personality trait. Bowls and bowls of it, the kind that turns the milk a color that does not occur in nature, and I would finish the bowl and go straight back for another one. I loved it. And then I grew up and learned what was actually in the box, and that was the end of that particular romance.Except it wasn’t, really, because a couple of weeks ago I stood in my kitchen in Italy and realized what I wanted, more than anything, was cereal. N
Why You Keep Doing The Things That Drain You, And What Your Human Design Says About It (opens the original)
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Ciao bella.It has been such a relaxing weekend here, Romeo and I have just been home doing very little, and I got creative with lunch today and made the most beautiful thing, squash and minced turkey in pan fried rice paper wraps, with the very last tomato and watermelon feta salad of the season. The sheepdogs are asleep right outside the kitchen window, it’s finally cooler and the sun is out, and I am sitting here with so much gratitude about to write this to you.I have my fresh collagen matcha
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