What Hobbits Like to Eat

Bilbo and the Dwarves prepare to eat, from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (Credit: Warner Bros.)

Hobbits are fairly obsessed with eating. This is not news to anyone who saw the Lord of the Rings movies: Bilbo stuffing himself with cake when Gandalf drops by; Sam’s tramping all around Middle-Earth carrying a kitchens-worth of pans on the off-chance he’ll find a brace of conies; Merry and Pippin fretting that, since their […]

A Village Reborn

Part of the cover of the issue of Budget Travel magazine showing Sextantio

On the day he found Santo Stefano di Sessanio, the ancient Italian village that would change his life, Daniele Kihlgren was lost. He had set out on his motorcycle to explore the Abruzzi mountains, two hours east of Rome, and was trying to locate a back road from the ruins of a medieval castle to […]