Author Archives: Rhona

 

Modena: more than vinegar

Mar 12

Spent Saturday in Modena; near to Parma and blessed that day with great weather. There was some kind of Ferrari show going on which was a little confusing as I think we came away with a distorted sense of the … Continue reading →

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Le Marche – lotsa pasta, a bit more wine

Mar 5

So, this account is jumping around a bit, but then so did we. Last Wednesday’s pasta tour of Spinosi was great fun. We found ourselves on another hilltop, in the village of Campofilone, in more glorious sunshine, where we donned … Continue reading →

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Le Marche – Tuesday: The Gastronomic Landscape, Shrine & Wine

Mar 5

We began our Tuesday last week in a room at Garofoli Winery, with a talk by Dott. Antonio Attorre (President of Slow Food Marche and teacher at the Università Politecnica delle Marche) about Le Marche as a food-producing region, which … Continue reading →

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Le Marche – Our Day of Pork

Mar 4

View from a Trattoria. The topic of vegetarianism has been well discussed by all of us on this pork-fest we call food school. This is repeatedly no course for vegetarians; even as the borderline veggies among us are starting to … Continue reading →

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A week in Le Marche – Olives

Mar 3

Ok, so I had never heard of Le Marche before I came to Italy. Well I had, I just didn’t know what “The Marches” meant – it was a phrase out of turn of the century literature, I thought; and … Continue reading →

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