Students Hunt Wild Truffles
Oct | 15
“Sole, dov’è il tartufo (Sun, where’s the truffle)?” called Matteo Bartolini after his dog. Picking their way carefully over the uneven ground, two Umbra Institute food studies classes followed Bartolini – and the truffle-hunting Sole – as the farmer showed... Read More
Umbra Professor Presents at Oxford University
Oct | 15
Convened annually since 1981, the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is the oldest academic conference on food history. Each year academics interested in using food as a lens to examine modern (and ancient) societies gather at the prestigious St. Catherine's... Read More
Umbra Pizza Night Strikes Again
Oct | 10
“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s Umbra Pizza Night!” — Dean Martin More than 80 Umbra students, faculty, and staff members descended on La Cambusa for the long-awaited Pizza Night on Tuesday. Because pizza... Read More
Umbra Professor Presents at Oxford
Oct | 05
Alessandro Celani Presents at Oxford September 21-23Umbra Professor Alessandro Celani will be presenting at an international conference to be held at the University of Oxford, September 21-23, 2010. The focus of the conference, entitled “Rethinking the Gods: Post-Classical Approaches” is on... Read MoreGelato Conundrums
Oct | 05
Summer in Perugia presents a dramatic question: where to get ice cream. This vital query is made all the more difficult by the fact that one can't simply exclude the "bad" ice cream places...because there just don't seem to be... Read More
Trattoria Tortilla: Mexican Food in Perugia, Italy
Oct | 04
If you've every tried to find Mexican food in Italy -- and especially in Perugia -- you'll know that the offerings are sorely lacking. The students from The Business of Food in Italy are aiming to change that by... Read More