So now that our grapes have been harvested, you might wonder what to do with all of those grapes when they seen to be coming out of your ears. Naturally, everyone mostly everyone makes wine, but the wine grapes are so wonderfully sweet and delicious, that if you can stop yourself from ..
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 local vendemmia, or grape harvest, was well ..
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 explanation of the origins of Torino's name on one of ..
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 at work and at home only inconsistently ..
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 the oh- so -serious porcino hunters make their ..