LIVIN’ LA VITA LOCAL
Everything revolves around food in Guardea, the tiny village in Umbria, Italy, where Nadia and her family have set up camp for seven weeks. Luckily for Nadia, the same can be said of her Italian vocabulary. “I can speak pretty good Italian when it comes to food,” she says on the phone from Guardea, tucking into a bowl of roast peaches soaked in amaretto with fresh ricotta, prepared the night before. “We can have a full-on conversation, and the villagers get really excited like I do. That’s how we’ve bonded.”
Being the only non-Italians in a community of just 1400 people has ensured that Nadia, husband Carlos and their sons, Bodhi and River, have made fast
