One of my favorite weekends of the year is here!

Why? Find out here + a Rome restaurant recommendation

This is one of my favorite weekends of the year for lots of reasons that I want to tell you all about!

First of all today is my birthday and believe me it's a big one! Celebrate with me virtually, friends. If you're one of my free subscribers today would be a great day to become a paying subscriber.

And all of you who have been loyal subscribers all this past year the best birthday gift you could give me would be to bring in a new subscriber. I love writing for you and the more of you the merrier! Plus, let's face it, it's your paid subscriptions that make it possible for me to create all the newsletter content, podcast episodes and website goodies like great seasonal recipes that you all love.

Speaking of seasonal recipes we are coming up upon Thanksgiving so tune in to next Tuesday’s November 2nd podcast episode: Michele Di Pietro and I share our top choice Thanksgiving pies for the big day!

And remember that every single podcast episode also has a blog post that goes with it so on Tuesday when the Thanksgiving pie episode goes live head to flavorofitaly.com to find all the amazing Thanksgiving pie recipes we talk about in the episode, along with recipes, photos and links to check out.

Let's get back to why I love this weekend!