by Elena | Mar 22, 2021 | Unusual pairings
I have always been fascinated by the stories of migrants (big family to which I belong too, after all): when I think of my Italian region, which basically has a reputation as a land of “Bogia nen” (“don’t move” in dialect Piedmontese), I...
by Elena | Jan 17, 2021 | Unusual pairings
Piedmont that emigrates, like me. The agnolotti, a typical Piedmontese dish of pasta dough filled with roasted meat, that it’s a fixed appointment of our Italian Christmas lunch, this year it remained faithful to the line: even in this period of pandemic and...
by Elena | Oct 29, 2020 | Wine tours
For a long time I wanted to visit the Ettore Germano winery, attracted by the keenest curiosity to try their Riesling, the famous Hérzu, a vine that I consider to be among the most fascinating and elegant so far tasted and definitively one of my favorites. Yes,...
by Elena | Sep 19, 2020 | Unusual pairings
Chile and the United Kingdom, South America and Northern Europe: two distinct countries that at first glance have very little in common, whether in terms of language, food or culture. And yet, believe me: if we put on the table a traditional English cheese like...
by Elena | Sep 3, 2020 | Wine and words
“Paddy Clark ha ha ha” is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read: this book shows you the world with the same eyes as the protagonist, a 10 year old Irish boy in the Dublin suburbs of the sixties. Paddy surely remind us when we were 10-year-olds...
