Dining | Wine

2006 Conterno, Giacomo Barbera Cascina Francia, 750 ml, List Price: $46.99

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2006 Conterno, Giacomo Barbera Cascina Francia, 1.5 L, List Price: $105.00

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Daily dish: Supa Barbetta recycles stale bread

Eldina Long and Erica Malan of Italy's Gruppo Teatro Angrogna, from the town of Angrogna in the Val Pellice west of the Piedmontese capital of Turin, were at Festa Italiana last summer to do demonstrations of the classic "cucina povera" soup from their area.

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Daily dish: Bagna caoda con peperoni

Bagna caoda (which translates to hot bath) is a traditional cold-weather Piedmontese dish that is enjoyed in groups, like fondue. I prefer to present it in another way: atop roasted red, yellow and orange peppers.

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Braida Barbera d'Asti Bricco dell'Uccellone

2003 ... was another of those Italian wines that I'm really meant to be holding onto but had to break out in order to wash down the muck I've been tasting this week. I'm beginning to think there can only be two possible factors at work, ... to Italian wines that no others are getting a fair crack of the whip ... Beaujolais, an 2004 , a 2006 New Zealand ... and the SO Organic () Chianti all, in varying quantities, made it down my kitchen sink. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not that hard to

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How Slow Food is gaining momentum in Milwaukee

As a concept, Slow Food is much more complex than just the opposite of fast food, but that is part of it. Slow Food is a system -- and a way of living -- that is based on the principals of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability and social justice. Today it's expanded globally to 122 countries, and in the U.S., the 16,000 members of Slow Food USA work to promote local and traditional food products.

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Home

I'm back, I'm home and I'm absolutely cream ( Cockney for Knackered innit). That being said it's good to be in ... The sun is shining, the chicken shops are a plenty and the range of wine and wine shops in my little corner of SW London is plain OFF just past the station and if walking in that direction bores me, I can about turn and hot foot it down to ... What a world we live in eh? ... , Geneva, , to make my way back home to London after 3 years in Italy. During that time this blog was

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye...

, goodbye ... and I will miss the fabulous prices you get on Italian wine which I will not enjoy in ... We get stuffed on every import and unless I can attune my to Chapel Down and Camel Valley * the bile* then I will just have to embrace the variety even if it comes at a cost ... On Saturday we make our way through a twisty and frightfully dangerous piece of terrain and through to a hotel outside and then Sunday morning I take the cinder line ... to and wind up in London about 11am. So

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Giacosa Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva

Stefano ... Stefano ... bottles of wine in the whole of Italy. This weekend I was packing up all my wines ready to make the bottle shocking trip back to London via Switzerland and France and decided to save this bottle the journey and drink the famous Red Label from at my leaving meal in Venice. What a chore! Aside from some heartbreaking cork taint there 't going to be any question of disliking the ... 1998 has been my personal favourite and vintage to drink in 2008 and this bottle

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Prunotto Barolo Bussia

is a wine that has managed to evade me over the last 3 years ... is a highly respected company, the ... is a ... super star of Italian wine and yet I have never tasted this wine. Even though the great of Italian wine own () it has still managed to pass me by. I've seen it, I've picked it up, I've played with it but only this week did I actually purchase a bottle. So last night I thought it was about time to break my duck and see what all the ... is about ... is always talked about in terms of

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