by Gabriele Monti December 3rd, 2012 The Franciacorta area is a moraine located in the south-east of Lake lseo, bordered by the Montorfano area and the rivers of Oglio and Mella. The nearby town of Brescia was the playground of the aristocratic and the rich during the seventeenth and the eighteenth century. I was the […]
Brescia – Franciacorta an area near lake Iseo dedicated to spumante wines Read Post »
by Gabriele Monti December 3rd, 2012 The gastronomic heart of Tuscany is found on the Tuscan hill: the Apennines with the flavours of the mountains, and certainly by Tyrrhenian Sea with seafood. Tuscany is mainly a hilly land and with lots of vineyard and olive trees, sunflowers, fruit orchards, woodland and pasture. A lot of
A tour in the hearth of the culinary tradition of Tuscany Read Post »
Rosso and Brunello di Montalcino wine estate visits Montalcino is a pretty hill top town in the province of Siena Tuscany. It takes about 2 hours from Florence and 1 hour from Siena to get there, so it makes an ideal day trip from one of these 2 main towns. The main attraction of Montalcino
A short guide to the food of Bologna, Modena and Parma by Gabriele Monti November 8th, 2012 Lovers of Italian food have labelled the Regione Emilia-Romagna as “the bread-basket of Italy.” It’s easy to see why. The historic cities of Parma, Modena and Bologna are famed for their food, from the air cured and delicate prosciutto (Parma
by Gabriele Monti November 6th, 2012 The protagonist of “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” a university student in the 1930 dines at “Pappagallo” and drinks coffee from “Zanarini,” the same historical buildings and establishment that you might find in Bologna today. The City name is “the learned ” thanks to the university funded in 1088 and “the
The Emilia Romagna, when looked on a map, has boundaries made in linear fashion, a sort of harness between the Po’ and the Apennines with the watershed that diverge slightly towards the bow of the Adriatic coast. Inside we have the two pillars that identify homogeneous parts for landscapes and traditionally run longitudinally through the Via Emilia. It is