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| Found FranciaCorta - BRAVA!!!! |
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| The men of the Festa delle Donne! |
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| Foscari Palace on the Vaporetto Stop Ca'd'Oro! Excellent!!! |
Savvy global travel curator. A synergy of health, culture, art, music, food, wine and photography, as sustainable as we can but with a little luxe living and lots of Italian flavor!
Venezia Carnevale - who needs words!!!
PUNTARELLE - My favorite Italian Chicory - thanks to Helena!
My photo of our luncheon Puntarelle
Click on the link for Puntarelle for a wonderful history lessons, thanks to The Italian Notebook.
Puntarelle LINK FOR THE ITALIAN NOTEBOOK.
Nine days in February..
The view of the alps was
breathtaking into Milan on
Wednesday morning -
where is my real camera;
although I must say,
iPHONE was a lot better than niente!!
starting to be weary over the winter weather! Not the typical start of a month for me, but given our dreadful course of weather these past couple of months, I've bucked up, and
enjoyed, ok,
really savored new adventures:
Hot Vinyasa class at
www.yogaforthepeople.com
sushi at Nana Sushi,
coolest Negroni and antipasti
on the Navigli in Milano,
enjoying lunch at the Anema e Cozze in the warm Italian sun
watching the gorgeous passenger/aka Fendi model on
Men's Fashion Week Milan on FTV
I know that I keep saying my word for 2011 is STILL.
This grotto photo, I took with my IPHONE to me says STILL.
The rest of the 9 days, still - maybe not so much
Home for one day, before I leave for Buenos Aires for pretty much the rest of the month! BRAVA!!! Tango, hopefully long lunches and late dinners with friends, visits to the new Hotel Fierro that the Rosbergs are involved with (Fierro Hotel) Tango lessons at Borges Cultural (TANGO Lessons) and lots of Malbec and Manzo!
Oh and one bottle of Uxmal Sauvignon Blanc!!!
THE HOT WORD -WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU CAN TASTE A WORD?
I was one of the bloggers to attend THE WRITE TASTE seminar with Salty Seattle, SippitySup and Food Woolf fellow food bloggers. We had a chance to up our writing skills: sharing in the tasting, smelling, and writing about the food at our table!
This was one of the Breakout Sessions that FOODBUZZ sponsored at the Sir Francis Drake. All of us, good writers, or not, feel that we can always improve. I definitely feel that my ideas, photographs and level of blog content far surpass my writing skills. Is this why I find it so difficult to sit down and WRITE? My favorite was the list of foreboden words, we as foodbloggers chose, coupled with the list Brooke reports that are strictly not allowed in her journalist post at a paper.
So, this morning, I'm reading a new book review, "BITTER IN THE MOUTH", and one link leads to another. I find this: SYNESTHESIA -hot word of the day. In one of the condition's rarest forms, gustatory synesthesia, selected words make it possible to taste a word. Now that would be writing a blog! Rustic, smoky, fruity (adjectives to describe my recent Venison meatballs, glazed with Damson Plum preserves!)
http://www.reference.com/browse/gustatory+synesthesia?
These ideas all add up to my latest quest to better my writing, hence improving my chances of writing my blog at least weekly!! Saluti and grazie to Linda, Brooke and Greg!!
This was one of the Breakout Sessions that FOODBUZZ sponsored at the Sir Francis Drake. All of us, good writers, or not, feel that we can always improve. I definitely feel that my ideas, photographs and level of blog content far surpass my writing skills. Is this why I find it so difficult to sit down and WRITE? My favorite was the list of foreboden words, we as foodbloggers chose, coupled with the list Brooke reports that are strictly not allowed in her journalist post at a paper.
So, this morning, I'm reading a new book review, "BITTER IN THE MOUTH", and one link leads to another. I find this: SYNESTHESIA -hot word of the day. In one of the condition's rarest forms, gustatory synesthesia, selected words make it possible to taste a word. Now that would be writing a blog! Rustic, smoky, fruity (adjectives to describe my recent Venison meatballs, glazed with Damson Plum preserves!)
http://www.reference.com/browse/gustatory+synesthesia?
These ideas all add up to my latest quest to better my writing, hence improving my chances of writing my blog at least weekly!! Saluti and grazie to Linda, Brooke and Greg!!
Just back from SLOW FOOD's SALONE DEL GUSTO AND TERRA MADRE IN TURIN, Italy
To give you an idea of the scope of this incredible , SLOW FOOD began 20 years ago to battle the fast food beginning to show it's ugly head in Italy. Since then, from what I understand, it has grown to be quite a movement. Now in many other countries, we in the Piedmont of Virginia even have our own brand new group, with my good friend, Christina Ball as one of the directors. I am very excited to become involved in this, since I am also working on an innovative dining project with local produce in our art group; primarily as a sharing of good slow food and artistic recipes!
My take on this 'hurried' 10 hours, was that I couldn't get enough of the tastes, friendships, interest in beautiful slow food, most likely paired with delicious artisan wines and beers. I cannot wait to slow down enough (!) to go back and enjoy the next one for days!! We accomplished only the 20 (twenty!) regions of Italy - each region had over a dozen different offerings, from cheese to pork to chocolate! After over an hour in our first, Campagnia, we had to regroup and step up the pace, or we NEVER would have even done that. The Slow WINE had to wait for the next show, and so many different lectures, cooking demos, next time. We did squeeze in a cooking dem from my favorite region, Puglia, with my new friend Michele Bruno, president of Slow Food Puglia, that brought back dreams of Santa Maria del Sole, and their own slow food.
I've uploaded a few of the shots I have taken, just on my way out to San Francisco, for the FOODBUZZ blog fest. More info to follow.
But I will say this in closing: in 2012 I am planning on a group to make our way to Italy, enjoying Slow Food as one of the 3 'events' in the jetsetWISDOM trip. Promise more to come! Meanwhile, savor the feel of this incredible exposition! Divertiti!!
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