Please visit www.saltys.com for their informative and fun newsletter!!! Good Ciao cookbooks are now in Salty's Gift Shops! Ernesto Pino, food and travel writer, says, "Good Ciao is the perfect blend of authentic central-Italian dishes and Pacific Northwest comfort food. Kathryn Hilger Kingen's Seattle passions melt into chef Roberto Russo's inspired creations." How can you resist? Pick up your copy for only $24.95 or visit http://www.saltys.com/good_ciao to buy one online. Russo's son Giuseppe Russo recently attended a Kids Korps USA gala with CNN's Larry King who was the celebrity MC of the evening. The Russos' Parco Fiorito vacation-package auction item had the highest bid of the evening (see http://www.kidskorps.org/Gala2008.html for more about the gala event) and we can't recommend it enough. Arrange your vacation to Parco Fiorito through Doumina Whyman, who gives personal guided tours of Italy. "Doumina gives you an up-close insider's view of the treasures surrounding the enchanted hill town of Cortona. You like olive oil? Meet a farmer who picks his olives, and the man who presses them. Art your thing? Listen to the passionate sermons of her guide, and real-life descendant of Cortona's own Luca Signorelli. Want to eat the way the heartiest Tuscans do? For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you will. Guaranteed," says Tim Stark, writer for Gourmet and Conde Nast. Whyman was recently featured in "Women in Business on the Kitsap Peninsula" (see http://kpbj.com/report/articles/2008-02-02-RPT-03.html for the story). For itineraries in Italy, see http://www.TheEnthusiasticTraveler.com or call her at (360) 620-2728 or email whyman1@aol.com.
Doumina Whyman 2008-03-08