What Manolo is…

I read Manolo because I am not yet tired of people who refer to themselves in the third person. Every week he posts what he is reading, doing, thinking, whatever. I never read it. But the idea is appealing.

What I am doing is preserving the absolutely insane amount of fruit and produce of this season. I plan to drag some exemplary products outside eventually and photograph them. Most of what I am doing is not plain vanilla preserving because I need to amuse myself, but a quirk here and a tug there and it is something different. I am using 4 Italian magazines on the subject and 2 English books. The variety of what you can do is astounding, and even if you take away all the things for which I do not have the ingredients, the equipment or the containers, it is still more than I will probably do in all my life.

So whatever Manolo is doing, Umbria is putting it up for the winter.