salvatore's garden

unlike in rome, i had no agenda in umbria and let frances do all the work --- the largest character that i met was her friend salvatore, whose byline on his card is "food and wine enthusiast" --- his garden is a postage-stamp parcel of land surrounded by plowed fields where he grows all sorts of edibles he also keeps free-range chickens, eggs of which he stole and gave to us for our lunch --- all the crates there in the garden were to keep the chickens from eating whatever it was he had growing

he also keeps three hogs, but has no intention of eating them

a large man living large