After learning her family’s Italian culture from her immigrant grandparents, Susan Guerra is experiencing a new part of life by living and leading walking food tours in Italy.  Growing up in Glen Ridge, Guerra was familiar with New Jersey Italian traditions, but it wasn’t until years later that she would move to Italy and truly learn the extent of her family’s Italian heritage. 

“I spent my entire life dreaming of one day moving to Italy,” Guerra said. “I was 50 something and the dream had still not subsided. My husband retired, and we said, ‘Now it’s time to go.’” Guerra and her husband Richard moved to Puergia, Italy in 2014. They chose Perugia because their eldest son moved there and opened Perugia’s first artisan cocktail lounge.