Elizabeth Wholey was brought up on a small farm in Northern California where her parents grew many of the trees and vegetables which she now cultivates in her own Italian kitchen garden. Elizabeth credits her Californian-Italian immigrant neighbors for instilling the passion for cooking, gardening and a way of life which she now is able to fully enjoy.

Elizabeth graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied art and art history. There followed a period of writing art reviews, then seventeen years as the owner of a successful graphics firm in Berkeley. In 1993 Elizabeth moved to a valley on the Tuscany-Umbria border where she restored an old stone farmhouse and planted a garden. She is currently co-writing a cookbook with Amore Sapore, Italian cooks with whom she works when she is not exploring the backroads of central Italy.

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If you're interested in learning more, you can begin your inquiry by contacting: elizabethwholey@tiscali.it

Thanks to David Wakely for the photography (www.davidwakely.com).

For places to stay, click on: www.altabella.com & www.tuscanybella.com.