Exploring a food market is one of the best ways to discover the daily life of the country you are visiting. As soon as we arrive in Bergen, I visit its popular fish market. We arrived in Bergen after a seven hour spectacular train ride amidst fjords, gorges and glaciers. Also known as the World’s [...]
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Say Cheese
Posted in Cibus, Events, Technique, Travel on Nov 19th, 2012
This article featured in Cibus edition of November 2012. Bizarrely dressed in white polypropylene overalls and sky-blue plastic shoe covers I shuffled behind Giovanni Roncalato, eager to discover the artisan cheese making process at La Casara. Accompanied by the warm September sun, as it was breaking through the wispy morning clouds, we made our way [...]
Bicerin: chocolate, coffee and cream
Posted in Travel on Nov 5th, 2012
Ten in the morning. Torino centre. Piazza della Consolata to be exact. Uninterrupted rain and a shocking temperature of 5° Celsius. We’re looking at the entrance of Caffe al Bicerin. Inside is chock-full. My brother queued whilst we shopped next door: gianduiotti, baci di dama, hazelnuts, crema di gianduia. A table emptied and we staggered [...]
This article was first published on MHRA Insider / August 2012. In April 2012, Italian master chef Gabriele Ferron was in Malta for a week courtesy of Eatmania. The week was entirely dedicated to rice and rice products from Riseria Ferron. Here is how it developed. For the second time, the World’s Ambassador of rice [...]
This article first appeared in Cibus magazine / September 2012. Read about my experience at the World’s best restaurant 2012: Noma – the delicious Nordic cuisine made of regional, seasonal and sustainable ingredients. We walked for nearly thirty minutes until we got to the waterfront of Christianshavn. There I saw the name of the restaurant I [...]
The red grain: Ermes rice
Posted in Cibus, Fresh fruit, Recipes, Rice, Salads, Travel on Aug 2nd, 2012
This recipe was first published in the June edition of Cibus magazine. These long, thin, rusty red grains are the result of a cross-breed between the Venere and the Indica rice varieties. The Ermes red rice is, not only an attractive ingredient, but a nutritious one as well since it is high in antioxidants and [...]
This article was first published on CIBUS / July 2011. An Italian journalist Luciano Pignataro revealed that the secret behind the flavorsome Cilento cuisine is the absence of a clock. I investigate this secret and wonder why in Malta we still have not embarked on a slow food journey. At the mention of the word [...]
Initially it felt like being a participant of some Big Brother show. We had to share a bedroom with other group members, help to prepare dinner, and work in teams on assignments. On my first night I felt slightly homesick. Twelve female participants from all over the world congregated together in one dreamlike place – [...]
This article was first published on CIBUS / October 2011. When my sister-in-law started discussing her wedding plans with me I egoistically exclaimed – why don’t you get married in an Italian countryside venue? As the words marched out of my mouth I was already hallucinating about the scrumptious Italian-style food and the glorious wine. [...]
The balcony of Umbria
Posted in Travel on Jun 6th, 2011
This article was first published on CIBUS / May 2011. The buses from Foligno to Montefalco are sporadic. Buses run to and fro every two hours yet this inconvenience did not discourage us from visiting Montefalco. Montefalco, was part of my father’s planned itinerary, whilst we were on a 3 day tour of the Italian [...]