Forward: This article was provided to us by Candi Cane Canncel, a writer and blogger from Miami Beach. For may of us who truly have a “relationship with pizza, and maybe even the pizza maker.” Enjoy! My 40th Birthday was fast approaching and I wanted to do something spectacular and out of the ordinary to celebrate. I had traveled alone before in the States but had never boarded a plane...
Galenus, the Roman inventor of pharmacology, knew it already: In the 2nd Century AD, he wrote that Sabina olive oil was the best in the ancient world. Not much has changed today; the green, rolling hills of Sabina are dotted with olive groves and still produce very special extra virgin olive, which is light but full of flavor at the same time. Sabina is a beautiful region of central Italy, very close...
The world of food & wine, and its audience has grown tremdously as the “fresh food movement” continues to grow. Many of you might have noticed that it has begun to form fascinating and, at times, even peculiar relationships with other activities and that at first appear to have nothing to do with food and wine in the first place. One example of such relationships is cooking and yoga,...
I spend a glutinous weekend touring this area of Southern Italy last December: three days of Limoncello, Panettone and mouthwatering pasta and pizza. Choose carefully and you can eat like a King here for relatively little, locals proudly proclaim that it’s “very difficult to eat badly in Campania” We certainly did alright; our first evening was spent in Salerno, a picturesque port town south...
Describing Villa D’Este, a luxury hotel nestled on the shores of Lake Como as Europe’s best hotel does admittedly need a ‘bit’ of evidence to back up such a bold claim. I won’t lie, I am completely smitten with the place but then it’s hard for anyone not to fall in love in such a location. A palatial villa facing one of Italy most enchanting lakes surrounded by mountains,...
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