Italian Foods

Verano Petri studied culinary arts at Italian cooking schools near Florence, but went on to merge his disparate influences to create his own unique style – See More at Telluride Inside & Out

Boys my age feared the sight of German soldiers. This is where I put to good use my knowledge of nature’s bounty. I went out in the fields, creeks, hills and valleys, climbed trees for fruit and mushrooms, and search the creek banks for edibles. I captured all sorts of birds, mostly small. We had nothing […]

A scrawny 8 year old boy named Verano was carefully setting a handmade trap to catch a few birds in the countryside of Lucca, Italy when he heard the roar of the Bombers coming from the south. They came by the hundreds, blotting out the sun, and began dropping the bombs everywhere. He threw himself […]