Dining | Wine

turin christmas market

Casa Dolcetto recommends a visit to the annual Turin Christmas Market which opens tomorrow, 5th December, in the piazzas and gardens of Borgo Dora, within the Maglio and Ciliegi courtyards in Turin ... Market stalls and nearby shops are open daily from 15.00 - 20.00 on weekdays and from 10.00 - 21.00 at the weekend. There is also music and theatre as well as fun activities for children at the weekends ...

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Wine books for Christmas gifts

by Martin FieldPerfumes: The Guide - * * * * * acid spicy $45Wine guides there are in plenty but apparently this is the first critical guide for perfume. Perfumes: The Guide lists some 1500 fragrances and rates them with a five star system. (See (pdf) examples here.)I used to work in the perfume biz and early on realised that perfume shares many elements with wine and its evaluation. Wine lovers will recognise many of the terms used in this book’s fragrance descriptions. You’ll find

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oriental art in turin

Casa Dolcetto recommends a visit next month to Turin. The 5th December 2008, sees the opening of the Museo d’Arte Orientale at the Palazzo Mazzonis ... Fifteen hundred works will be on display in the new museum dedicated to the art and culture of Asian countries, which provides space for Asia’s most important cultural and artistic traditions as an acompliment to the important pre-existing collections in various public and private institutions in Turin. The five cultural areas, which are

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

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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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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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