Il fantasma dell'orso, the Phantom of the Bear
Il fantasma dell' orso, the Phantom of the Bear. Umbria is very rainy nowadays. Since we returned to our seventh heaven, Al Settimo Cielo. two weeks ago, we have had only two dry and sunny days. Once the sun is out, it is nice and warm and one can be outside without a jacket, but the sun hardly comes out, which is very unusual. It seems like nature is making up for its entire water shortage of the last two years at once. To cheer ourselves up, we went to Orvieto last Thursday. We were in luck, it was dry, though cloudy. After a stroll around the market and town we decided to have lunch in la taverna dell'orso, the tavern of the bear. We both chose a good fresh home made pasta. Being a real man, husband chose the 'umbrichelli alla cinghiale', the regional pasta of Umbria, a kind of thick round spaghetti with a wild boar sauce. I took pasta dell'orso, a vegetarian one with a delightful sauce made of fresh tomatoes, basil and scamorza, the smoked chee