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This week's prompt is "Beginnings."
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
This platter of funghi (mushrooms) was the beginning of a wonderful dish a group of us prepared at a Diva cooking class in Florence - we picked them out at the Mercato Centrale, and sauteed in olive oil with parsley and garlic they were a very tasty treat!
Posts: 3962 | Location: Berkeley, CA | Registered: 22 March 2005
The beginning of luscious olive oil. Photo taken at La Macina, Antico Frantoio Toscano. We went here as part of the cooking class I took with Pamela Sheldon Johns ; my prize from the ST contest
A wonderful memory looking back on my photos of that day!
Oh so many possibilities for this one! Here is a shot of the famous Carrara marble in the mines before it is mined, cut into blocks and used for sculpture, countertops etc.
Ruins of the city of Megara Hyblaea, 700-750 B.C., situated roughly between Siracusa and Augusta, Sicily. This was the beginning of several settlements in Sicily by Greeks from Megara. They went on to found Selinunte. A very peaceful spot with few tourists.
Posts: 295 | Location: Connecticut, USA | Registered: 02 March 2003
My first Italian cooking lesson and the beginning of my obsession.
Deborah Horn In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I want to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- www.petsburg.com My blog: Old Shoes - New Trip
Posts: 5599 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
While in Padua we went to the university on the day they announced the results of the medical exams. Tradition demands that the new doctors begin their careers with a reminder that they are no better than anyone else
The beginning of our meal, which we now refer to as "the mountain of meat" in Ascoli Piceno. We barely ever ate meat at that time, so all of it, including to raw sausage was really daunting.
Following up on Diana's theme, the beginning of our great adventure restoring our "hovel" in Casperia - what was to become our dining room in November of 2004:
At the beginning of the tasting I was given these six glasses of armagnac. It was 1 pm in the afternoon. Taken at the Hotel des Iles Borromees, Stresa.
Chris, absolutely beautiful. I could feel the weight of every strike of the hammer when looking at that second picture. What a joy your home must bring you.
I am confused, Chris, did one of these two photos get reversed or is there another door and window to the back of the photographer in the first shot?
Dana, you know, life in Italy is always full of challenges, my dear...
Originally posted by JChrisP: And what it looks like now (or at least last March -- reverse view). I am convinced it is never too late for a new beginning.
Wow! I love it.
Posts: 562 | Location: Connecticut | Registered: 02 December 2005
My daughters, soaking it all in, as we glide down the grand canal on our arrival in Venice, the beginning of a three week adventure in Italy last summer. Priceless!
My contribution to "beginnings"...finding Slow Travel was a beginning for me in many ways...the beginning of friendships, experiences, wine and food. This was taken in Cortona on the door of Il Girasole in Cortona...
This is the Sorgenti di Pescara ... the beginning of the Pescara River near Popoli in Abruzzo. The spring is the opening in the rock formation to the left. From this spring the Pescara River grows rapidly reaching about 10-12 meters wide within the first 25 meters of the spring. Shortly thereafter the Aterno River joins the Pescara and the enlarged Pescara flows to its namesake city on the Adriatic coast.
Posts: 763 | Location: Palmyra, NJ, USA | Registered: 29 July 2003
Photo taken at La Macina, Antico Frantoio Toscano. We went here as part of the cooking class I took with 
fat-free
double-scooper gelato, to celebrate the beginning of my first trip to Venice.
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