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Living a Life in Colour

a guide to Italian food, wine and culture

Where does the best olive oil come from?

November 17, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Olives and sharon fruit we picked

Now is the season in Italy when the olives have the highest content of oil, have a lower acidity and a milder flavour. This is precisely when they are picked and pressed into olive oil. Olive oil is used throughout Italy. This golden elixir has been held in high esteem since ancient times not only for… 

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Filed Under: Children, Food, footer, Travel Tagged With: baglietto & secco, le 3 case agriturismo, liguria, olive, olive oil, olives, press olive oil, recipe, torta verde

The Disneyland Small World of Food: Salone del Gusto

October 28, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Puglian girl tying bunches of Torre Canne Regina tomatoes

Arriving at Slow Food’s Salone del Gusto (a 4 day food fair in Turin) on Thursday was essentially my idea of what arriving in heaven would be like; a combination of travel adventure and food voyage- a Disney’s Small World of food. Although I thought I knew most foods in the world as I am fairly well travelled, I… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Travel Tagged With: ark of taste, salone del gusto, slow food, torino, turin

Cellar Tour: La Giaretta: A Family Tradition in Valpolicella

October 21, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Armed trellises in the vineyard of La Giaretta

Standing next to Valpolicella giants such as Masi and Allegrini and superstars such as Quintarelli and Dal Forno, La Giaretta sits out of the spotlight quietly producing its good value, quality wines. We had the privilege to visit this small, family run winery in Valgatara in Marano in the heart of the Classico zone (the… 

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Filed Under: footer, Travel, Wine Tagged With: amarone, classico, i quadretti, la giaretta, recioto, red wine, ripasso, sweet wine, valpolicella, veneto, veronese

The Valley of Many Cellars

October 7, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Duck with balsamic glaze

In a lovely little valley studded with villas and vast estates, some of the best wine in Italy is produced. Valpolicella is a mixture of Greek and Latin and means valley (val) of many (poli) cellars (cella). It sits in an enviable position in Veneto to the east of Lago di Garda, protected from the worst… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Travel Tagged With: amareno, recioto, recipe, ripasso, sbrisolona, valpolicella, veneto, verona, wine

Cellar Visit: Coffele in Soave, Veneto

September 30, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Coffele winery in Soave

We made a visit to Soave in Veneto on a friend’s recommendation to visit the winery of Coffele. Coffele has two cellars, first the mid-nineteenth century Castelcerino vineyard in the Classico zone of Soave, 7 kilometres south of the village of Soave, and considered to be one of the finest in Soave. The other is… 

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Filed Under: footer, Travel, Wine Tagged With: coffele, garganega, italian wine, italy, soave, sweet wine, veneto, white wine, wine

Franciacorta: Champagne’s younger sister

August 26, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

L'Albereta Relais & Chateau

  Franciacorta, located to the west and south of Lago d’Iseo in Lombardia, is a sea of neatly arranged rows of green covering 6,000 hectares. It is a peaceful oasis in which grows Italy’s answer to Champagne. Great wine is often grown in areas of great beauty and Franciacorta is no exception. There are 80… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday, Travel, Wine Tagged With: bellavista, berlucchi, ca' del bosco, champagne, champagne method, clusane, franciacorta, il mosnel, l'albereta, la montina, lago d'iseo, langoustine, lombardia, lombardy, monte isola, pasta, recipe, relais & chateaux, spaghetti al gamberi di lago, sparkling wine, trattoria al porto, trattoria del porto, wine

The Italian Lake District: Lago di Como

August 17, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

risotto con i filetti di pesce persico (risotto with breaded perch fillets with sage butter sauce)

  We spent a few weeks wandering along Lago di Como, Lago d’Iseo and Lago di Garda.  We drove through fields of corn and rice, forests and vineyard after vineyard. Throughout we found a patchwork of wineries and farms. We started from Milano stopping off at Tarantola restaurant hidden in the woods. The woods themselves… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday, Travel Tagged With: albergo milano, ambivere, appiano, bellagio, castello di vezio, darsena, fish, grand hotel tremezzo, grand hotel villa serbelloni, lago di como, lake como, lake fish, risotto, silvio, tremezzo, villa carlotta, visconti

Taste the real Sardegna: Gastronomic adventures

August 12, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Culurjones (pasta stuffed with potato)

Many people flock to Sardegna for the perfect blue skies and spectacular coastline, opting for seafood in the Mediterranean heat but I think this is a mistake. They are overlooking the tradition of this pastoral island and the unique culture of the Sardinians. We stayed at a farm hotel (agriturismo) near Alghero called Sa Mandra,… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday, Travel Tagged With: amarettos, aranzada, casadinas, casarecce, Culurjones, food, formagelle, fregola, ghisadu, guanciale, lumachine, Maharrones de busa, mallorredus, pabassinas, pancetta arrotolata, porcetto, porcheddu, prosciutto, ricottelle, sa mandra, sardegna, sardinia, sausage, seadas, Tiricche

Happiest sheep in the world?

August 5, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Sardegna may be home to some of the happiest sheep in the world, thoughtfully grazing overlooking some of the most spectacular coastline in the world. This is reflected in the cheese. The morning we went to the farm of Sa Mandra in Alghero, they were churning the ewe’s milk to make ricotta. First they put… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday, Travel Tagged With: cheese, pecorino, sardegna, sardinia

The idyllic family holiday destination

July 29, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

We took the boys and my father on a tour of northern Sardegna and found it to be, like many places in Italy, extremely family friendly. The location was potentially even more appealing to us because living in a large metropolis like Hong Kong, we were sensory deprived. Our ears were full of the sounds… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Holiday, Travel Tagged With: agriturismo, al tuguri, alghero, asinara, boat, capo caccia, castelsardo, children, cormorano, costa smeralda, grotto di nettuno, horseback riding, kids, las tronas, maddalena islands, neptune's cave, porto cervo, porto rafael, sa mandra, sailing, sardegna, sardinia, spargi island

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