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Articles written by Elena Valeriote

Elena Valeriote writes stories about farming, food and drink, climate, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Atlas Obscura, Civil Eats, Eater, Full Pour, Imbibe, Life & Thyme, and Modern Farmer. She is currently producing a documentary about rare olive trees in southern Italy.

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The Cowgirl Behind Some of Tuscany’s Best Buffalo Cheeses


A taste of Italy’s wild west To imagine Tuscany is to envision a picture-postcard scene of narrow, medieval streets in Florence or tidy rows of vineyards and olive groves in Chianti. But travel just an hour or two southwest of these well-known destinations and you’ll arrive in the Tuscan subregion of Maremma, a landscape too […]