Apologies for the brief blog post, but our Taste of Umbria students have been out and about all day, and didn’t arrive back in the convent until past midnight…but it was worth it!

The morning began with sleeping in and breakfast out in Spoleto on their own, Then it was time for a pasta-making class with Nonna (grandmother), who runs the kitchen at the Hotel Clitunno where students eat the majority of their meals. She taught them how to make strangozzi, the specialty pasta from Spoleto, with a light tomato sauce. We all ate it for lunch, and it was delicious.

After strangozzi, it was down to New Spoleto to learn to make cornet (croissants) from a childhood friend of SSA staff member Andrea Muti (nephew to founders Jill and Lorenzo Muti). If the laughs and constant chatter were any indication, the students had a blast!

Following cornetti making was a brief siesta, dinner at the Hotel Clitunno, and then…a movie night! The modern art museum in Spoleto hosts an outdoor movie night, and the students watched an American film (with Italian subtitles) out under the stars. It was a long day, but we all agreed it was one of the best!