I Learn More About Cooking Corn Every Time I Travel

A few weeks ago, while bicycling through Glera vineyards in the Italian countryside, my husband and I pulled over to rest at a 17th-century polenta mill, as you do. Something about the creekside setting felt strangely familiar, and later on in our trip, we realized that the WWI novel, “Not All Bastards Are From Vienna,” had been centered in the nearby commune of Refrontolo. Of all the scenes from the book, it was, of course, the...