One of my recurrent dreams is to tour every corner of the culinary peninsula – Italy. This dream was born following my intense interest in food and wine, matters in which Italians are connoisseurs! It always fascinated me how these citizens could create a dish with the same main ingredient in a multitude of ways [...]
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I Primi D’Italia: The Anticipation
Posted in Events, Travel, tagged italy, pasta, soups, I Primi D'Italia, Foligno, Umbria, Food Festivals, rice, gnocchi, polenta, primi on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bella Sicilia 2!
Posted in Events, Travel, tagged fish, Sicily, Travel on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We woke up everyday thinking about food, planning where to eat and looking out for the best spots to taste Sicilian specialties! On one occasion, the staff at La Petrara Resort cooked for us all and we had a lovely menu which we washed down with tasty home-made white wine. This is what we ate: [...]
Bella Sicilia!
Posted in Events, Travel, tagged fish, Sicily, Travel on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has become our yearly custom to visit Sicily for 4/5 days in mid-July with a couple of friends and together with my parents. This year we also had the pleasure of being accompanied by baby Carla who at 1 year and 4 months she turns out to be an avid food lover and a [...]
Disruption of the eruption!
Posted in Events, Travel, tagged Amsterdam, Cantina Piemontese, chickpea, chorizo, Dusseldorf, lovefood, Milan, Patatas Bravas, Travel, vongole on April 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well, well, well it has been quite some time since I have updated my blog last… and from the title you might guess why! The volcanic eruption in Iceland left me stranded in Dusseldorf, Germany for quite some days and at last I arrived home safe and sound after a train hopping trip to Amsterdam, [...]
Arrivederci!
Posted in Events, Travel, tagged Travel on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the time has come and we’re off to the trip I had mentioned in the post of the 21st October – me & my better half will be flying off to Rome and then to Trentinara – this tiny cute village in the Cilento area. You will be hearing all about the food we [...]
Lo Vottaro
Posted in Travel, tagged campania, cilento, italy on October 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Waiting eagerly for December… not only for Christmastime but even more for our trip to Trentinara in Cilento (Campania, Italy). My parents just returned from an overland tour of Southern Italy wherein they had a fruitful encounter with a sweet Italian couple… I say fruitful or rather foodfull because these blessed human beings come from [...]
