If you eat 3 meals a day, that means you ate 1098 meals in 2012. How many of those meals were memorable? Certainly not 1098, how about 500? 100? Could you name a dozen? Looking through photos helped us remember some of our most memorable meals (and snacks) of 2012. You won’t find anything resembling […]
Italy
Our tales of food and culture, and the recipes we collected along our way from our travels through Italy.
A Day Of Remembrance (2012)
Remembrance Today is Remembrance Day, wear the poppy proudly and remember the men and women who fought for your freedom. Without their sacrifice who knows where we would be. <a href=”http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_publisher.dbm”>make money</a>
Hungry for Budapest
Budapest It was with mixed emotions that we boarded the Wizz Air flight to Budapest, Hungary from our beloved Italy. A month had flown by and there are still many untold stories for future posts. An hour and a half out of Milan and we were in Budapest, searching for our shuttle driver, in a […]
Torino, Images of a Shrouded City
Torino Turin is best known as the stage of the 2006 winter Olympics. It is the home of the Shroud of Turin and is also known as the Automobile Capital of Italy as it is home to Fiat. Turin is a great city, packed with museums, galleries, parks and one of the biggest outdoor/indoor markets […]
Borgo Garibaldi – a pictorial
Borgo Garibaldi We rented an apartment at Cà Borgo Vecchio in Borgo Garibaldi, it made for a comfortable base from where to explore the area. Borgo Garibaldi is a suburb of Brusasco in the Piedmont region of Italy. The Borgo is small and consists of a castle, and a few buildings built around the church, […]
Reverse Wedding Crash
Borgo Garibaldi Tucked away in our quiet apartment in Borgo Garibaldi. We were quite relaxed and comfortable. The owner mentioned to us that the agriturismo that runs the palazzo next door also has a restaurant, only open on the weekends. “You should make a reservation”, she said, “but I think they are catering a wedding […]
Near The Banks Of The Mighty Po River – BASIC RISOTTO
Po River Glad to be out of the madness of Genoa, we made the drive North to our next destination, Brusasco. A small town about an hour outside of Torino near the banks of the mighty Po River. Our apartment for the week was actually in a small Borgo sitting at the top of a […]
But Why Here? – one night in Genoa
Genoa Twice in my life, a local has asked me why I would want to visit their hometown. The first time, I was lost in an alley in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, it was 1986. The second was this summer in Genoa. I thought I was pretty smart, I found a super cheap hotel near the […]