We have not been idle in our spare time since we moved to Villa Oleandro. I wanted to write a book about Vico del Gargano, it's people, dialect and traditions, as long ago as 1981, but until we moved here I didn't have enough material or experience.  I wrote the first chapter 2 decades ago and it has travelled with me, moving from computer to computer, awaiting inspiration.

Equally Margherita has been compiling her Book of Cooking for many years.

Having achieved our goals, it was only when we discovered Lulu Self Publishing that we were able to realise our books (as it is virtually impossible to get a publisher/agent to even read a chapter unless, it seems to us, one is some kind of celebrity).

The results of our work can be seen by following these links:

We acknowledge that there are some typos and grammatical errors in both books as they have not had the benefit of professional proof-reader/editor corrections. However we hope that these will not spoil the read.