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Dining in Rome: Rooftop Restaurants and Special Occasions

by Melanie on 08. Jun, 2010 in Ask the Italy Expert, Food and Wine, Rome

In the first installment of “Ask the Italy Expert,” a feature in which I ask Italy travel specialists to help me answer reader inquiries, Stefania Troiani of Rome Shopping Guide about outlet shopping and pastry shops in Rome. This week’s questions are also about Rome and eating. What can I say…? Those are two topics [...]

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Five Favorites: Recipes from Rome

Five Favorites: Recipes from Rome

by Melanie on 18. Dec, 2009 in Destinations, Featured Articles, Five Favorites, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome, Things To Do

Here’s another installment of Five Favorites, this time from a born-and-bred Italian. Eleonora (Lola) Baldwin writes not one, but two food blogs – one in English and the other in Italian. I’m very excited that this native Roman wanted to share with Italofile readers her five favorite typical Roman dishes. And you don’t have to [...]

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How To Make Bolognese Sauce

How To Make Bolognese Sauce

by Melanie on 01. Oct, 2009 in Food and Wine

Here’s a great way to bring Italy home – learn how to make Bolognese sauce! There are dozens of instructional videos out there, including this recent one from Epicurious.com. But two of the best I have found – that adhere to the original ingredients and techniques from Italy – come from Mario Batali, the Italian-American [...]

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Hotel Award: Best Culinary Experience

Hotel Award: Best Culinary Experience

by Melanie on 20. Aug, 2009 in Accommodations, Amalfi Coast, Culinary Travel, Food and Wine

Virtuoso Life, a magazine tailored to luxury living and travel, has just released the winners of its Best of the Best Awards for 2009. Not surprisingly, the worldwide winner for the best culinary experience was in Italy. Rosellinis, a 2-star Michelin restaurant in the Palazzo Sasso hotel in Ravello, received the top prize for a [...]

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Rumblings in the Wine World

Rumblings in the Wine World

by Melanie on 18. Aug, 2009 in Food and Wine, Italy News, News, Things To Do

It has been a little under two weeks since Italy announced the findings in the Brunello di Montalcino scandal. In case you haven’t been following this case, Italian authorities – prompted by the United States – started an investigation to find out whether some renowned manufacturers of Brunello di Montalcino were making their wines with [...]

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Comprehensive Guide to Cooking Schools in Italy

Comprehensive Guide to Cooking Schools in Italy

by Melanie on 26. Mar, 2009 in Arts and Culture, Cooking Schools, Culinary Travel, Food and Wine, Specialty Travel, Things To Do

Staying on the subject of food today, here is a wonderfully comprehensive guide to cooking schools throughout Italy (not just Tuscany) for anyone thinking of taking a culinary vacation. Thanks for all your research, Jessica! Cooking Schools in Italy | Italy Travel Guide.

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Rome’s Best Trattoria? You decide…

Rome’s Best Trattoria? You decide…

by Melanie on 26. Mar, 2009 in Destinations, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome, Things To Do

Choice Tables – A Debate Over the Best Roman Trattoria -NYTimes.com How could I possibly let this headline from the New York Times pass me by? Apparently, the global recession has led Italians to rediscover their local trattoria. And where better than Rome to start the debate? The problem with trattorie is that there are [...]

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Foreign Food Ban in Italy

Foreign Food Ban in Italy

by Melanie on 04. Feb, 2009 in Food and Wine, Italy News

Now I love Italian food as much as the next person. But, a ban on foreign food in some municipalities and regions is, in my opinion, a kind of gastronomic racism (as described by Italian chef Vittorio Castellani). I learned of the foreign food ban in such towns as Lucca from the Hugging the Coast [...]

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Why Gelato? Why Not!

Why Gelato? Why Not!

by Melanie on 30. Oct, 2008 in Food and Wine

If you’re like us, then any time of the year is a good time to think about and eat gelato. This is exactly the premise of a new website called WhyGelato.com. Owned by PreGel America, a subsidiary of a gelato company from Reggio Emilia, WhyGelato.com wants to be a “gelato-inspired resource for anyone and everyone [...]

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Keeping Up With the Antinori

Keeping Up With the Antinori

by Melanie on 15. Oct, 2008 in Destinations, Food and Wine, Tuscany, Umbria

Italian wine enthusiasts (that includes most of us, right?) may find this past weekend’s 60 Minutes story on Italy’s Antinori family intriguing. Considered one of Italy’s premier winemaking clans, the Antinori have been in the wine business for more than 500 years. Today, even the Antinori daughters are in on the act. To learn more [...]

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