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Category Archives: food tastings
Orford Ness & Game for Everything
Always an auspicious sign, the snail. This one was living free on Orford Ness, in Suffolk, a blasted landscape in many senses, being a former military testing site and now a valuable nature preserve. A group of poets made a … Continue reading
Spain 5: olive oil, peaches and lots of fish
With one down (massive cava hangover) and a few more beginning to falter (3 head colds, 1 sore back), we set off for Reus (birthplace of Antoni Gaudi!) where we had a tasting of DOP Siurana olive oil (made from … Continue reading
Spain 3: bread and sausage
On our second day in Spain, we headed to the University of Vic, also known as UVic (- and I guess, fair enough, they have more claim to the name than Victoria, which lacks a school of idioms). On our … Continue reading
Spain 2: cured meat and wine
Our first day we left behind three casualties: two recovering from queasiness from the previous night’s tapas feed, and one sore throat. We drove through the wooded hills – a surprise to many of us, expecting a parched, desert-like landscape … Continue reading
Piemonte Wednesday
We had a morning at the Pollenzo campus with some of the Slow Food folk on Wednesday. Representatives of the Slow Food International, Slow Food Editore and the Foundation for Biodiversity gave us a talk on their mandates and activities. … Continue reading