The Best Family Restaurants in Turin
November 11, 2009If you’re heading to Turin with children and looking for suggestions on where to eat, check out the guest post by Italy Beyond the Obvious at ItaliaKids. Whether you’d like a romantic adult dinner but don’t have childcare, or are looking…
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3 Reasons to take food photos on vacation
November 05, 2009Unless you’re a foodie or a food photographer, you’re probably like me (and most tourists), and put away the camera when food arrives on the table. Here are 3 reasons to document your gastronomic experience in Italy. 1) Recipes you…
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The Best Italian Souvenir, Ever
August 12, 2009Bottles of Limoncello, pottery from Tuscany, or Venetian glass may be the best gifts to bring back from Italy, but they are heavy, breakable, and inconvenient to travel with. So what do you buy for all those friends who…
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Where to eat and drink in Turin
August 05, 2009[Updated October 2015] I have a good friend from Turin who is smart, gorgeous, athletic (a Ph.D in chemistry and a SCUBA instructor), and knows the best places to go out. So on my request, she and another friend put…
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The Fragolino Controversy
June 18, 2009I remember when I was first introduced to Fragolino. It was in Milan in 2002, at an Irish bar near our apartment. My husband and I ordered a bottle of the house-made Fragolino wine on a friend’s recommendation, and it was…
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Make Time for the Locals
May 21, 2009One of the best ways to get to know Italy is to get to know Italians, so if your waiter or barista or hotelier strikes up a conversation, I highly recommend making time for them. They are most likely not…
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The Italian Cheese Cart
May 01, 2009It's easy to go to Italy and completely miss experiencing The Cheese Cart: traveling on a budget often means pizza for dinner; and at a ristorante, after the bread basket, antipasto, primo, secondo and dolce, when the waiter rolls around with…
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Farinata
January 06, 2009Farinata could be described a sort of dense savory pancake; or maybe as a thin chick pea pizza crust; or maybe as a heavy, thick tortilla. In any case it's a batter of chick pea flour with water and olive oil,…
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Eataly, Turin
November 25, 2008Eataly, as the name suggests, is about eating in Italy. So I'm dedicating an entire post to it. Eataly was built during the major overhaul done in Turin to prepare for the 2006 winter Olympic Games, and is basically a gourmet grocery store offering all…
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