About

ABRUZZISSIMO is a personal magazine about Abruzzo.

I’m Anna Lebedeva, a food and travel journalist based in Abruzzo. I started ABRUZZISSIMO because the region I live in — its mountain villages, its crafts, its food, the people who stayed and the ones who came from away — was going largely untold in English, and I wanted to tell it properly.

I write and curate every issue myself — nine a year — and in each one I invite a few local voices to join me: historians, guides, cooks, book authors, people who know a corner of Abruzzo better than anyone. Together we cover the region’s history, culture, food and traditions with insider knowledge, real reporting, and a love of the place that keeps us off the well-worn track the guidebooks and Instagram reels stick to.

My work has appeared in the Telegraph, the Independent, Italy Magazine, International Living and The Local Italy. I’ve written a culinary guide, Eat Like a Local in Turin, and I’m at work on my next book.

ABRUZZISSIMO is reader-supported, with no advertising and no sponsors, so the subscriptions and donations of its readers are what keep it going. Today it reaches more than 5,000 people around the world, hundreds of whom have supported it as paying subscribers since the very start, six years ago.