I'm not quite ready to leave the autumn behind just yet, even though old man winter keeps blowing his frosty breath around to chill the bone and make you work even faster to get all of those autumn projects done before winter begins in earnest. Our...
Topics: autumn, mountains Italian alps, vendemmia

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Recently I've been making a few trips to our provincial capital of Torino or Turin , the dialect name which most visitors know it by.  This stylie bull is the symbol of Torino and found adorning all manner of things. I found this interesting...
Topics: Italian customs, Torino customs, Torino details, Torino/Turin, Toro, tourism .Torino, tourist sights, Turin symbol

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One my greatest pleasures in life is baking bread. I love the feeling of concocting a gruel from the simplest of ingredients flour, water, salt and yeast to create such a variety of sustaining foods, bread, our daily bread. For many years I made bread..
Topics: Bread, bread recipe apple chestnut bread, World Bread Day 2009

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It's that time of the year again when I awaken before light to the sound of my father- in -law  lightly clomping down the stairs to go after the big game like Cinghiale, otherwise known in these parts as wild boar, whilst the steady whooming of.
Topics: boletus edulis, porcini, porcino recipe

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We've been busy making elderberry jam lately. The trees have been heavily laden this year as we have had a warm summer, with enough rain to finish them off leaving them pleasingly plump and  delectable. Just right for the picking. Elderberry..
Topics: conserva di Sambuco, Elderberry jam recipe, food, jams, Sambuco

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