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About Eleonora Baldwin

American born, Italian raised Eleonora Baldwin lives in Rome with her son and divides her time between working on film sets, freelance writing and designing custom food holidays in Italy. She is currently editing her Italian food/lifestyle manuscript, a collection of family recipes, history, art, daily life snippets; and a lot about how Italians forage, shop, cook, eat, praise and appreciate food.
Eleonora is the author/editor of three popular websites Aglio, Olio Peperoncino, Roma Every Day and Forchettine. She can be found on Twitter @passerotto

How to seduce in Italian

It’s been over two years since Eleonora first shared her cheeky guide for “Italian Curse Words not Needed: Useful Words and Phrases.“ Travel Belles, we think it’s time for the next step. Italian men are known for their wooing techniques, and American women are frequently warned of the ploys of the flirtatious Italian ragazzi. But why wait [...]

Complete Guide to Flying with Children from a Travel Belle Mom

guide to flying with children

Aero-mom (aka, Eleonora) shares a complete guide for flying with children for this month’s Across the Cafe Table “Single mothers or those traveling alone with small children: please come to the front of the line for immediate boarding.” What was that? Did the voice coming through the speakers just say “single mothers?” The two of [...]

Cooking Around the World: Cape Malay Bobotie

Cape Malay Bobotie, recipe

A tale of South African cuisine and friendship Tessa was a special lady. She had class, talent and a huge heart. We met in blogland, where we discovered we shared the same deep love for South Africa, her homeland and my dream life destination. After exchanging numerous comments and visits on our respective blogs, sending [...]

Cooking around the World: Couscous from Tunisia

Vegetarian cous cous from Tunisia

Belles bring back knowledge about many things from their travels… one of our favorites? Food! This week  we’re learning about couscous from Tunisia (and how to make it too) with Eleonora Baldwin Couscous is a North African dish traditionally served with meat, seafood and a spicy vegetable stew spooned over it. For those unfamiliar with [...]

Visiting Italy as a Vegetarian

Eating vegetarian in Italy

With some tips from Travel Belle and resident Roman tour guide and foodie, Eleonora Baldwin, we see that being a well-fed vegetarian in Italy isn’t as challenging as you might think. “Sono vegetariana,” and no one makes a face. That’s because in Italy, skipping meat is no big deal. The average everyday Italian diet is [...]

Photos of Rome: Madonna and the Traffic Light

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As usual, Eleonora brings us her own lovely perspective with another one of her unusual photos of Rome (and cool story to go with it!) for this week’s Belle Views.

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