Grabinger, Scott Tiezzi

"Who am I? What is my experience?" My family and I have been traveling around Italy since 1992 learning the towns, sites, foods, language, and culture. I have a wealth of cousins in Foiano della Chiana in Tuscany (my maternal grandparents emigrated to the US at the turn of the 20th century) They give me a unique perspective that only a family can provides showing me sites and restaurants that other writers miss, taking me to festivals of food "(sagre)" and celebrations, and teaching me how to "act Italian" -- well, they try. "Where did the idea for my books come from?" In 2008, after retiring