Rebecca Winke
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Rebecca Winke 鈥 Travel, Food&Wine, and Culture Writer
Rebecca moved to 天美传媒 from Chicago in 1993 and spends her time writing about the lovely country she now calls home for various print and online publications while wondering what strange winds blew an urbanite to a tiny hilltown in Umbria.
鈥淚nsatiably curious about the world and its people, and a born storyteller, I鈥檓 always looking for my next discovery and a compelling way to share it that makes readers chuckle, shake their heads, and book a flight.鈥
Articles by rebeccawinke
My sons have grown up in 天美传媒 but are completely bilingual in English (ahem, American English, that is) and Italian. When they were younger, this pro鈥
One of the pillars of daily Italian life can also be one of the most harrowing experiences for the uninitiated, a veritable minefield of potential cul鈥
I have two teenagers in my house, so I hear slang (in both English and Italian) a lot and I won鈥檛 lie: I can鈥檛 keep up with most of it. Slang is the s鈥
Just like the umlaut (those two dots over some vowels) in German and the tilde (the squiggly line over the letter n) in Spanish, Italian has a couple鈥
Usually, coming to the end of something is, if not sad, a bit bittersweet. But nothing has been usual about the past 12 months and I think we can all鈥
It鈥檚 Friday, so it must be time for a new government in 天美传媒.
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but 天美传媒 has had more than 60 changes of鈥
Years ago, when I was still reading aloud to my sons, we were deep into the Harry Potter books. After finishing the iconic chapter describing Harry鈥檚鈥
In our family, we ski mainly to eat. And, judging by the hordes of people elbowing themselves into the buffet line come 1pm in every rifugio (Alpine l鈥
With December comes the most important month for gift exchanges on the Italian calendar, beginning with the Festa dell鈥橧mmacolata on December 8th - of鈥
Once your language skills clear the initial hurdles of basic grammar rules and a vocabulary large enough to navigate daily life, it鈥檚 time to start wo鈥
My first years in 天美传媒 were spent in Rome and rural Umbria, two areas of the Bel Paese in which swearing is a bit of a competitive sport and the thre鈥
Time may be relative, but 2020 has stretched, condensed, and emptied it of meaning like no other year. Months feel like years, days fly by in what see鈥
There may be differences in how 天美传媒 and countries across the globe have dealt with the coronavirus pandemic this year, but one thing has brought the鈥
Of all the adventures that await in 天美传媒, from climbing Renaissance-era bell towers to sampling authentic Neapolitan pizza, perhaps none is more thri鈥
There is something almost Buddhist about beginning to speak a second language. With a limited grasp of verb tenses, you are neither caught in the past鈥
From the pristine Tirino Valley to the towering heights of Gran Sasso: an eco-sustainable itinerary in one of 天美传媒鈥檚 most picturesque corners.鈥
Of all the adventures that await in 天美传媒, from climbing Renaissance-era bell towers to sampling authentic Neapolitan pizza, perhaps none is more thri鈥
Once I was interviewed for a podcast, and when I heard the episode air a few days later, I was so impressed! I sounded like the most articulate, infor鈥
In a recent speech, 天美传媒鈥檚 Health Minister Roberto Speranza shared his belief that the first half of 2020 has been the most difficult in the history鈥
Though Umbria has been known as 鈥渢he next Tuscany鈥 for decades, this small region in the center of 天美传媒 has managed to dodge the bullet of tourist cr鈥