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Stefano Talks Pizza 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Photo credit: Luciano Furia. The Parla Food Proust-inspired questionnaire is back! It’s time for this blog to return to its roots and focus on the people who make great food and drink. This week, we ...
Fulvio Bressan, The Man Behind the Wine 23 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Take a deep breath and behold a disgusting rant spewed out by (to paraphrase Einstein) an infantile and diseased mind. “Hey…filthy black APE…I DON’T PAY TAXES to put your GORILLA friends up in a HOTEL...
Gruyere in Kars, Swiss Cheese in Eastern Anatolia 22 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
It’s been a while since a trip has changed me for the better. Delays, lost luggage, interminable waits at baggage claim and the squalid conditions at Fiumicino Airport are enough to make anyone embitt...
Making Kaşar in Kars 16 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
By noon, I was drenched in whey, caked in cow shit and my left hand itched. It was pretty much the best day ever. It started in the workshop of a small kaşar producer near Kars, where cow’s milk curds...
Through the Grain Fields of Kars 3 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
Şemsa channeling her inner Ceres. Today I profiled a Milan fashion blogger for an “important” British publication. Already under normal circumstances, a puff piece like this would have driven me to t...
Parla Food on The Splendid Table 25 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Fried things at Cesare al Casaletto, one of my faves. Tune in to The Splendid Table on Friday to hear me chat with Lynne Rossetto Kasper about contemporary Roman food culture. I won’t be sugarcoating...
L’Auberge de Chassignolles 24 Jul 2013 | 03:35 am
There aren’t many vineyards around Chassignolles, a miniscule village in the Auvergne. The surroundings are dominated, instead, by vast pine forests and verdant pastures where cows lumber and sheep gr...
Italy’s Changing Food Habits 19 Jul 2013 | 09:54 am
The future? Photo credit: the amazing and talented Megan Hodges. The financial crisis in Italy is in full swing. All the statistics, not to mention the dismal vibe, support this. Yet if you visit Rom...
Procida, An Island Getaway Off the Coast of Naples 17 Jul 2013 | 12:05 pm
UPDATED! My aversion to fancy things is almost as intense as my attraction to that which is unpolished. It is both of these factors that draw me to Procida, an island off the coast of Naples, again an...
Pasticceria Andrea De Bellis’ 1000foglie Bar 16 Jul 2013 | 02:45 am
Rome isn’t particularly famous for its dessert culture, and justifiably so. Most pastry shops use shoddy industrial ingredients like Nutella, margerine and worse. This, among other reasons, is why Pas...
