Welcome to Villagio
Hello friends, I hope you are keeping well. It’s me Silvia Regos, picking up the pen (or computer) to write to you today, after the passing of so many years, with some exciting news.
Most of you are receiving this email because you subscribed to my previous newsletters, via Pomodoro Cooking School or Around Silvia’s Table. Others, because you are my friends and family. And some of you are both!
This is my new newsletter and a new venture, Villagio, which picks up where Pomodoro and Around Silvia’s Table left off, and goes so much further. All the way to Sicily, in fact, and beyond.
Villagio is about nurturing a return to “village life” - wherever you live - inspired by the sense of community I experienced in the Sicilian town where my mother was born. Village life is about sharing experiences with your loved ones, through growing, gathering, preserving, cooking, and eating together. It’s the daily practice of slow living, and making choices for a life that is a little less distracted.
It’s my hope that Villagio will become a place for you to be inspired. For you to restore and reconnect through slow food, mindful travel, and the wholesome pleasures of Sicilian village life.
I hope you will join me in exploring all that this means. If you’d like to learn a little more about what Villagio is, does, and stands for, you’ll find it on my new website, www.villagio.au.
And in the meantime, here’s a little update on what’s been happening for me since we were last in touch.
(I’d be thrilled to hear what’s been happening for you too, if you’d like to leave a comment at the end of this letter.)
My children Chloe and Thomas were born in the very early days of Pomodoro Cooking School, when I was running the school from home. I still remember my husband Matt whisking them away very quietly so I could run my classes in the kitchen.
Now they have grown up, and are both attending secondary college and spreading their wings. And yes, I can proudly say that they can both make homemade pasta all by themselves.
Throughout the years, I have been humbled and privileged to bump into past students of Pomodoro, and to reminisce about those Italian recipes and meals we shared together over long summer lunches. There was a memorable moment not so long ago, when one of my favourite students, who had moved overseas, rang me from a supermarket in Singapore to get my Sicilian braciole recipe, having left his recipe-book behind in Melbourne.
These small moments were subtle reminders that one day, I would be back and sharing my passions with you once again.
Which brings me back to Villagio, once again. I hope you will join me on what is the next evolution of sharing my passion with you.
Warmly yours,
Silvia