Challenged by the many restaurants in the most frantic town of Italy, owners diminish their praise with more modifications. More salt, less sugar. Smoked paprika, not regular. The kitchen is a madhouse for the cooks—you can all but hear the rolling of heads on each chopping board as the chef declares massacres—and not the animal kind. Re-plate that! Olive oil, not butter! Are you trying to kill this dish? It’s…

Tuscany is enchanting; one might call it a fairytale land where wine connoisseurs frolic in the hills living out their dreams. The highly praised film Under The Tuscan Sun quite simply does not do this extravagant place justice, and I came to this conclusion the moment I set foot in this tranquil escape. Rolling hills, endless seas of green, horses grazing and galloping lazily in the lush grass…it’s baffling to…