Tartuffo Bianco in Bologna
OK. So add Bologna to my list of amazing places to visit in Italy. It's right up there with Venice, (which makes me swoon). I have a feeling the list will get VERY long. A girlfriend from my Italian...
Polenta and Porcini
From my journal entry, 23 January. Bergamo. Bergamo is beautiful and reminds me of San Gimignano in Tuscany. I'm on in the "Alta Cittá", the high city up on the hill within the old fortress walls....
Cathedral, Basilica, Chapel, Baptistry
After rising up from the valley floor in the funiculare tram, a short walk brings you to the old plaza, la Piazza Vecchia. Encircled by palaces, a bell tower and a colonnaded portico, the...
Bergamo: “Home on the Mountain”
For 4 Euro and 20 cents - about $6.00 - each way, I was able to hop on the train and take a 45 minute ride to Bergamo, east-north-east of Milan. Amazing amazingness. I'm still picking my chin up off...
Apologies to Vegetarians
I guess this blog site might be a turn-off to vegetarians. Sorry about that. I'm living in Italy. Not just meat, but RAW meat on the menu… and I eat it all. Shavings of raw lard. Ground up...
Wild Boar at 10:00 P.M.
Mmm. It's 10:00 p.m. and I just cut into a big chunk of Cinghiale Bresaola - uncooked, aged, wild boar meat. (Cinghiale: ching-GHYA-lay) Yum. So good. Peppered on the outside. Dense/firm....
Push/Pull Limbo
It's an odd position to be in this limbo of not knowing how long I'll stay in Italy. My original plan was to be here for a year, but as my Seattle departure date approached last June, I thought, and...
How About a Mortadella Burger?
This could easily be the next big thing. The new, chic food. All it would take is some hip New York restaurant to put it on the menu and spread the word. Or a Guru T.V. Show Chef to rave about it:...
Centrale Station Doorway
Getting out at Milano Centrale Metro Station to change from one line to another, I came up the escalator and was faced with this beautiful, colorful, tired doorway. Gorgeous.
Winter Cat
January 7, at 40 degrees on a gray day, I bundled up and hopped on my bike for a ride along the canal. Down a ways, with a construction site on the opposite shore, I spotted a calico looking quite...
100% Italian Meat
Walking past the bus stop, this ad stopped me in my tracks. McDonald's. (A stranger in few parts of the world.) The assurance of 100% Italian Meat. The seared map of Italy on the big Mac meat patty....
History Buff on Wheels
"I was born in 1945 during the war years and I grew up with family members all around me talking about politics and The War. They didn't always agree. I think that being surrounded by these...