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Living a Life in Colour

a guide to Italian food, wine and culture

What will the kitchen of the future look like?

May 26, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

We are buying a home. As I am obsessed with food and cooking, in my mind I have always been planning my dream kitchen. Every time we go to a friend’s house and I spy a faucet that can dispense boiling water or stay in a holiday rental which has kitchen appliances which roll out from… 

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Filed Under: footer, Kitchen, Lifestyle Tagged With: bimby, deck oven, kitchen, kitchen equipment, sous vide, steam oven, thermomix, vacuum sealer, vorwerk

Ten years ago today, I made a mistake

April 7, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Exactly ten years ago today, my grandfather passed away. I was working on an important banking deal at the time and was on a business trip in Europe when my father rang to say I may want to consider coming back. He said that there was no immediate need to rush back so I booked… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Lifestyle, Musings on life in general, Parenting Tagged With: career, career life balance, children, family, kids, meals, values

Skiing in Courmayeur

February 12, 2014 By wooweiduan 1 Comment

I went skiing in Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, one of my favourite places to ski for many reasons but mainly because I love the food, the village (see below for recommended places to visit), the people, the variety of ski runs, and the breathtaking views of Mont Blanc. The village is very Italian in that most… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, Lifestyle, Travel Tagged With: A' Romana, bar roma, Berardeco, best yoghurt in the world, C.Atelier, Caffe della Posta, chateau branlant, chocolate cake, cioccolata fondente, courmayeur, courmayeur restaurants, fontina, ginepro, Grand Hotel Courmaison, grolla, honey, mont blanc, Mont Frety, mushrooms, nettle, Paola's cheese shop, pizzeria du tunnel, Plan Checrouit, polenta, Pre'-saint-didier, prive, ricotta, shopping in courmayeur, shops in courmayer, sugo al brasato, torta al cioccolato, valle d'aosta, where to eat in courmayeur

Have any grasshopper sauce in your cupboard?

October 19, 2013 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

I often have an internal disagreement between my head, which tells me it makes most sense to buy local products which are fresh and support my local community, and my stomach, which wants to eat a different cuisine for every meal. This week, I may have met someone who can help me achieve the twin… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, Lifestyle, Technology Tagged With: ben reade, copenhagen, denmark, elderflower, fermentation, fermented food, garum, grasshopper, microbes, noma, nordic food lab, prosciutto, quince, rene redzipi, terroir, venison

AsiO Gusto – the first international Slow Food festival in Asia

October 15, 2013 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

AsiO Gusto   I had the good fortune to attend AsiO Gusto, Asia’s first Slow Food conference, in Korea. Being the first conference, I had relatively low expectations but wanted to see how food professionals in the 40 participating countries in Asia and Oceania viewed their role in relation to the Slow Food movement. What… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, Lifestyle, Musings on life in general Tagged With: asia, asio gusto, korea, slow food, sustainability

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