
Meet Oli: An 8-Year-Old’s Life in Lucca, Italy | Ep. 65
Published: July 30, 2026
Duration: 35:59
What's it really like to be 8 years old and growing up outside the walled city of Lucca, Italy -- with a go-kart, a backyard full of chickens, and grandparents who make their own tomato sauce every summer? On this special episode of Beyond the Plate with Carol, Carol sits down with her great-nephew Oliviero -- Oli, as the family calls him -- for a conversation that has nothing to do with restaurants and everything to do with what makes a childhood in Tuscany so special.
Oli walks Carol through a day in his...