Flavors From Afar

Our community partners at BB&T are having a "Shine A Light" contest.

Please share with BB&T why FaithWorks is your favorite non-profit.

Visit the page linked below and tell BB&T how FaithWorks and our wonderful volunteers and donors shine a bright light in our community.

BB&T will award up to $10,000 to the winning organization.

Nine finalists will receive $2,000 for their cause.

Then we're counting on you to come back and vote for your favorite to win an additional $8,000.

BB&T has helped change the lives of more than 13 million people since 2009 through their volunteering effort, the Lighthouse Project.

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Save the date! Visit with us, plan and dream for new directions in Italy 2012!

Travelers Party February 12, New Directions! Every year we host a party for all of our friends who have come with us on a trip to Italy or plan to come in the future: Over 100 happy souls and counting!

Egrets roost at the King and Prince Golf Course. Naturally! Aybe they can find some of lost balls;)

Honeycomb from Savannah Bee Company surrounded by beautiful fruit!

Feeling right at home at an olive oil tasting - in Georgia! Arbequina olives, Texan Jim Henry helped with the pressing! This is this year's oil, pressed September17: light, floral, buttery!

4am tomorrow these little piggies hit the grill at Southern Soul BBQ in St. Simons. Sweet dreams!

They're making beer in Georgia! A rye from Athens, Sweet(er) water from Atlanta. Sides of boiled peanuts - yeah baby!

Can you find the gator in this photo? Smiling and sunning himself number 14 at the King and Prince golf course. Play through!

Those rascally wild white Georgia shrimp! Don't stray far from home, and their sweet feral flavor outshines their farm-raised distant cousins. Culinary demo at the The King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort showed us a new twist on shrimp and grits with cream and cajun seasoning prepared by locally-born chef Dwayne!

Wrap-up from this year's trips to Tuscany! Stay tuned for more in 2012!

Travel Notes: Week 2 in Italy! Pinocchios abound in markets in Florence, but this life-sized figure lives in one of our favorite Chianti vineyards, Dievole. The Novecento (named "900" after the 900th anniversary of the winery) Chianti Classico 2007 Reserve is amazing this year.

Grapes drying for this years Vin Santo at Altesino.

Daniele Baffuraldi raises Cinta Senese pigs outside of Siena. Their fat is "medicine": antioxidants, omega 3, good cholesterol. Buon appetito!