After a few days exploring the Račkova Valley we came down onto the agricultural plains of the Slovakian countryside for some larger sunset landscape photographs of the entire mountain range. Unfortunately, the clouds rolled back over the mountains and they…
“We have always trusted in nature to take care of us,” said Andrea Meini, the agronomist for the Cantine Leonardo da Vinci, a wine-growers cooperative in Italy’s Tuscany region. “We’ve really only begun to notice the extremes in the last…
Finns are going to laugh at me for this post but I don't care. I LOVE fried muikku! In English we know this little freshwater fish as vendace, Coregonus albula. In Finnish it is muikku. A member of the Salmonidae…
Two days ago I dropped in on Jimmy Paywa of Zuni Pueblo for some bread. “Jim....hmmmm.... I think I’ll be able to remember your name,” he said. “Don’t worry if not," I told him. "Sometimes I can’t even remember my…
“So. There are three areas on the stove basically. The hottest is right here over the area where you put the wood.” Maria Luis waved her hard-working, muscled hand over the front part of the stove. “Both sides. Hot. Then…
~ ~ ~ The cheesemaker Francesco Bagnoli lives with his parents and grandmother Lorena on the summit of an outrageously steep and pointy little Tuscan hill near Lamporecchio. The house seems cubist-inspired, all stacked both on top of and next to…
Ok. If you're only here for the recipe and not the amazing and outstanding and simply mouthwatering photography then jump on down to the bottom where you will find Chef Anna's Italian Crostata Recipe as presented by chef Karista Bennett…
Editor's Note: Rules being rules and laws being laws, please note that you have to to be at least 18 years old to read the rest of this post. Ya silly I know. Its because of the alcohol.... Tuscan Food…
In the Bar dell'Orso on the road to Montalcino I needed a break from all the espresso shots I was kicking back. Instead, I wanted to just sit and sip at a coffee. Take my time. Enjoy it. I asked…
This is the Sangiovese grosso. Some think this grape has been cultivated since Etruscan times. Yesterday we drove south to the Montalcino where the the Sangiovese grosso is raised specifically for the Brunello wine produced by Cantine Leonardo DaVinci. We…
On Wednesday I leave for ten days in Tuscany. I've been to Italy a number of times but never Tuscany and I haven't been back to Italy since my last visit to Venice in 1998. Needless to say I'm excited.…
"Albeit they have neyther meadows, nor pastures, nor arable grounds neare their city...they have as great abundance of victuals, corne and fruites of all sorts whatsoever...being plenteously ministred unto them from Padua, Vicenza, and other bordering townes and places of…
