Via Emilia – a street for foodies!
It´s still running through downtown Bologna – while you stroll along Via Rizzoli, you are walking on the ancient Roman “via Emilia”, completed in 187 [...]
How to find a good restaurant in Italy
It´s lunchtime, you´re driving through the countryside, looking for a good, but not too expensive restaurant? Seeing lots of parking cars with Italian license plates [...]
Parmigiano Reggiano producer in the Colli Bolognesi
The production area of the original Parmigiano Reggiano cheese is strictly limited, within these borders the restrictive production rules apply to every factory and you [...]
About misunderstandings and cafe´ in Italy
It´s almost common knowledge that Espresso is called “caffe´” in Italy and I´ve seen many tourists ordering completely correct, but getting upset by being asked [...]
Festival del Prosciutto di Parma
Foodies all over the world know Prociutto di Parma, the unique cured ham, but if you go to Parma, you´ll look in vain for the [...]
How old should Parma cheese be?
The birth month of a Parma cheese also makes a difference, not only the aging time, like most people believe. When in May the cows [...]
Visit to a Mortadella factory
This is how it looks like, the mass which will be Mortadella – after being seasoned and cooked. The sausage from Bologna is imitated all [...]
Italian ham – is Prosciutto = Prosciutto?
Prosciutto – the hind leg of a pig, salted and dry cured – if all this happens in the area around Parma, it´s called “Prosciutto [...]
Balsamic vinegar competition – Fiera di San Giovanni
The Fiera di San Giovanni took place 21. to 24. of June 2012 for the 142th time in Spilamberto, a small town close to Modena. [...]
Parma cheese for Foodies
Like the aging time and production location, the cow breed which delivers the milk for Parma cheese makes a difference in taste and consistency. The [...]