Laura Massoni Category

• My Full Story…Why I Love Italy So Much

  Saturday, April 16th, 2011No Comments

  When I grew up in Torino, Italy I would dream of other places, better places. My house was located right in front of the first FIAT factory, the Lingotto factory where Mr. Agnelli, Giovanni’s grandfather, built the very first automobile plant in Italy. The view from my balcony was not very appealing and as a [...]

• When I Grow Up I Want to be like Francesco…Francesco Travaglini!

  Saturday, April 9th, 20111 Comment

  The wiser I get the more I want to live in a farm, close to the animals, away from the city but close enough to Italian nonne (grandma’s) that can teach me the true Italian good cooking. By good, I don’t mean elaborate, I just mean, tasty, fresh. I think my state of thinking is [...]

• Greetings from Sicily!

  Saturday, March 26th, 20113 Comments

  This is what I would have wrote this week but due to some unexpected circumstances I have to cancel my trip and stay home! SICILY HAS TO WAIT!!!
  I was really looking forward to fly into Palermo, Punta Raisi airport and see with my own eyes how this well known airport in our San Diego’s [...]

• Italian Have It All!

  Saturday, March 19th, 20111 Comment

  I have always wondered how our family of 5 and one on the way, can be so close to each other? My husband Michael and I have 3 children, a teenager, a tween and a toddler plus another one on the way. Since I was a child, I have wanted a big family and [...]

• From Our family to Yours… Experience Italy with the Eyes of the Local

  Saturday, February 26th, 2011No Comments

  I have lived in the US for over 18 years now and there isn’t a day that I don’t think about my family, the smells of food being cooked, the loud discussions and the unpredictable laughs. I miss all of that indefinitely with the good and the bad.
  This is why I like to go visit [...]

• Pappalecco Travel is Traveling out of the ordinary!

  Saturday, February 12th, 2011No Comments

  What do we mean by that? What do we do?
  We feed people’s soul by leaving them with memories in their heart so that they have stories to tell.
  We do this by taking them on a journey through Italy’s unknown parts even in the most known cities.

• The Pure Perfection of the Imperfect Italy!

  Thursday, October 21st, 2010No Comments

  Have you ever noticed that in Italy everything looks perfect?
  Your traveling companion is perfect, but you have trouble agreeing back home!
  Your cup of coffee is perfect, but you have places back home that make an awful cup of coffee (not Pappalecco of course!)!
  You are perfect, back home you need a psychologist to even be [...]

• Pappalecco Reunion Italia

  Friday, July 30th, 20101 Comment

  Ah Little Italy, one of my favorite places to frequent. And Pappalecco is the place my fiends and I have come to cherish. Not just because of the atmosphere, or because the menu offers numerous items pleasant to the palate. It’s more than that, it’s about the connection between the people behind the counter and [...]

• Do Italians find more joy in everyday life?

  Thursday, April 22nd, 2010No Comments

  Italians find a lot of happiness around the table. I personally think about dinner time, all day long. What am I going to cook tonight? I believe that eating something that has inspired you all day, brings your mood up, makes you happy.

• Gioco del Ponte

  Wednesday, April 7th, 2010No Comments

  Every year at the end of June, Pisa hosts the Gioco del Ponte, a giant tug-of-war type competition over the Arno River.