Concept of Time

"Italians' concept of time is radically different from most people I know in New York, and I'm realizing that I don't have to accomplish 29 things every day, and read the entire New Yorker while drinking my coffee from a paper cup and texting on a treadmill."

Jhumpa Lahiri, 47

Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer

Human Connection

"Here [in Rome at the local food markets], you know the person who bakes your birthday cakes, who makes your salami and cheese every day, and the people who sell everything you put in your body. And they know everything you put into your body because there's this deep, human connection that you create day after day."

Jhumpa Lahiri

Excerpted from Financial Times, 23 May/24 May 2015, page 16 of House & Home FT Weekend.

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