Ruthie's Table 4: Bella Mackie

When you're close to a family, you're close to their food. Bella Mackie’s family and ours have spent summers footsteps away from each other's homes in the Val d’Orcia for nearly 30 years, swimming, walking and attempting to read novels between long lunches, late dinners, and negronis in the Piazza Piena Montepulciano.  When Bella and her husband Greg come to The River Cafe, they know the food they want to eat, the wine they wish to drink, and they always request a quiet table where they can just be together. Ask any young person working in the restaurant about Bella's books, and they'll tell you that Jog On shaped their life in a crisis or How to Kill Your Parents was one of those books they just could not put down. Today in The River Cafe, Bella and I will talk about running families, Tuscan holidays and facing everything else.