Feb | 02
While apparently our friends and family back home are experiencing unseasonably balmy temperatures, Italy has been hit with some of the coldest weather in years. It started snowing yesterday and hasn't stopped yet! Via Bartolo is blocked off for all... Read MoreFeb | 01
Education Interns meet with local teachers at Montessori high school to prepare their first workshop with English language students.This time in the semester marks an exciting period at Umbra. Volunteer opportunities, service learning projects, and internships are well underway. Volunteering:... Read MoreJan | 30
Elizabeth Lutzvitch and Jordan Ashwood taste a local Umbrian wineLast Thursday, Umbra students attended a wine tasting at a local Perugia enoteca. The professional sommelier, Silvia Bartolini, demonstrated how to use our sense of smell, taste, and sight to examine... Read MoreJan | 25
Rita held up her hands to the Umbra Institute students and said, “This is my trademark, my guarantee.” To say they were calloused is an understatement—no pesticides means more pulling weeds—but it makes any sort of organic label redundant. As... Read MoreJan | 25
Harvard student and Umbra alumna Teagan Lehrman recently submitted a paper to the ASFS, the Association for the Study of Food and Society,the professional association of scholars who study food and food culture from various points of view. Lehrman, a... Read MoreJan | 24
What's the connection between monkeys, monks, and the cappuccino? Why is a caffè hip but a caffè in vetro (in a little class cup) even hipper? What does the Yemeni port Al-Moka have to do with coffee history? Did an Ethiopian... Read More