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Culinary Border Crossing

Gorizia, the capital of Italy's tiniest province, sits smack on the country's northeastern border with Slovenia. In fact, Slovenian is the local language, although almost everyone speaks Italian too. This frontier has changed ...read more

Region: Friuli Venezia Giulia

Tags: restaurant

Falling Star

Gualtiero Marchese at Ristorante L'Albereta, in Erbusco.


Gualtiero Marchesi, Italy's first Michelin three-star chef, lost a star this year and so I decided to investigate. A few years ago, Marchesi moved ...read more

Region: Lombardia

Tags: restaurant

Extra (Alpine) Virgins

Garda extra virgin olive oil.

Three Italian regions share Garda, the largest of the Italian lakes, enjoyed by hoards of non-Italians in the spring, summer and fall for its beauty and mild ...read more

Region: Lombardia

Tags: olive oil

Italian Cook's Bookstore

Biblioteca Culinaria, in Lodi.


In 1990, cookbook collector Gianpiero Zazzera and his American wife, Liz Marcucci, began to sell hard-to-find regional and classic Italian cookbooks by mail. Chefs, restaurant owners, journalists and ...read more

Region: Lombardia

Tags: cookbooks, cooking library

Cooking Competition

I was part of a cooking competition called SCUOCHI in Milan at a cooking school last week. The idea- a top chef chews up food writers.  Four journalists cook- each ...read more

Region: Lombardia

Tags: competition


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