Archive for the 'Italy' Category
Pasticceria Nannini
What brought me to beautiful Siena? It couldn’t have been the famous Palio horse race. I had missed that by about a week. It probably wasn’t the magnificent cathedral, though its Beetlejuice Gothic-style stripes were pretty interesting (if a bit imposing for a religious site). Maybe it was the unique shell-shaped [...]
Read More..>>Pasticceria Alba
To anyone whose food vocabulary includes the words “decadent” and “sinful”, I don’t recommend a trip to Sicily. I’m afraid it would be sensory overload — all the “guilty pleasures” may be too much. You see, Sicilians take their sweets very seriously. As soon as your flight touches down at the [...]
Read More..>>Eataly
Ask anyone serious about food which is the best gastronomic region of Italy, wrote Frank Bruni, and unless they are “seafood lovers, contrarians or Sicilians” the answer will likely be one of two places — Emilia-Romagna or Piedmont. The way I see it, he’s certainly right, but there is a particularly special thing about [...]
Read More..>>Il Latini
Florence is a beautiful city, and one steeped in history. It has boasted an impressive list of notable residents for hundreds of years: Salvatore Ferragamo, Dante, Galileo, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But really, besides the names of the Ninja Turtles, the foundations of the modern Italian language, and some of the [...]
Read More..>>Gelato in Northern Italy
Is there any image more evocative of la dolce vita of Italy than licking a cone of delicious gelato? Honestly, I’m not sure there is. I was lucky enough to spend nine weeks traveling all around Italy this past summer, and I had more than my fair share of gelato. 45 different gelaterie, 102 scoops [...]
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