Mark Hinshaw

Cities see their role as making culture widely available to everyone without imposing stiff ticket prices.

"This was dentistry in the era of COVID-19. And best of all, the whole process cost only 70 euros ($80)."

So much of Italian culture and artistry is like the proverbial peeling of an onion. The more layers you remove, the more you find beneath.

Perhaps the greatest challenge I’ve encountered is not linguistic or social, but physical.

I often narrow my choices to salmon, mussels, tuna, or scampi. One cannot go wrong with any of these.

Doesn't Stanley Tucci's American upbringing ever cause him to crave hash browns? And is there an Italian version, perhaps with extra-virgin olive oil?

What if you didn’t have a calendar to glance at every once in a while? What if it was a list of numbers, 1 to 31 displayed in random clusters?

Non-Italian food in Italy? Pretty damn hard to find.

I was given a prescription by the surgeon to address the recovery process. One day, there was a knock on the door, which I answered it in my pajamas and robe. It was the local pharmacist, asking if I needed any refills. I had never imagined a pharmacist making house calls.

In our little Italian village, an extended construction project across the street turns into an opportunity for unexpected kindness.