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Il dolce far niente

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In the centre of an umbrian kitchen with cracked tile walls, Anastasia Bizzarri, wearing a withe linen apron hand-embriodered with the words "VILLA MONTAGNOLA", reaches toward a white marble table.
The table is covered with bright red tomato innards, bread crumbs, and silvery parsley leaves drenched with olive oil ...

... Ivi-covered Villa Montagnola sits on a hill wrapped with deep green cypress trees, twisting figs, and olive orchards taht produce thousands of gallons of oil each year.
The top-floor windows look out on the hilltop towns of Perugia and Assisi, across yellow plains.
The villa is home to a distant branch of the Medici and Borgia families; it's now run as an agricultural tourism farm by Vittoria Iraci Borgia, a fierce but soft-spoken woman with the slender build of a suburban mom...