This is post 5 of 5 in our series on Italy, with previous posts covering Florence, Sienna, and a food tour around Parma. With all the amazing food we had already enjoyed, with all the beauty we had already seen, it may be hard for you, dear reader, to believe that one the finest meals [...]
This is part 4 of 5 in our series on our Culinary Journey through Northern Italy. See our last post on Florence here. A key aspect of Great Lakes Cuisine is "terroir," the French term meaning the "agriculturally relevant features of an area of land." For example, the Bordeaux region, according to The Wine Bible, [...]
We started our Italian Culinary Journey in Florence (see Part 1 here) and then spent a day travelling to Siena, the culinary epicenter of Pecorino Toscano. We were searching for a very specific cheese - Pecorino Foglie di Noce. Outside Italy, Pecorino Romano is the most well-known, but Pliny the Elder wrote about Pecorino Tuscano [...]
Visiting the birthplace of Dante Aligheri, we open with a sonnet,a tribute to Florence, the start of our Italian culinary journey! For I am one acquainted with the flight -I am Milwaukee to Vienna bound,But connection to Florence far too tight, First to Zurich, then to our Tuscan town.Airborne vision - patch-worked fields of green,Swollen [...]
Curing Meats & Other DIY Food Projects
Celebrating the culinary traditions of the Great Lakes
Celebrating the culinary traditions of the Great Lakes
Celebrating the culinary traditions of the Great Lakes
Great Lakes Cuisine 