Below you'll find a list of all posts from November, 2012
Barrie Kerper, the author of The Collected Traveler series of travel books, introduced to two incredible Sicily cooking schools in our October issue. Here she shares her reading list to immerse yourself in Sicilian cuisine: Two excellent books that generally cover Sicilian cuisine are Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food, Mary Taylor Simeti and Sicily: Culinary Crossroads, Giuseppe …
In our October issue, Barrie Kerper wrote about two incredible cooking schools in Sicily. Here she shares one of her favorite Sicilian treats and its provenance: It’s hard for me to accurately describe the creativity of Sicilian confectioners, who shape and color marzipan into incredibly life-like treats – sea creatures, fruits, nuts, baskets, spaghetti, eggs, etc. Marzipan is an island-wide …
Ready to fill 2013 with Italy? We have the perfect Italia 2013 Desktop Calendar for you. You can either purchase it OR receive it FREE when you subscribe to Dream of Italy. The above Umbria photo is the featured photo for February 2013. Here photographer Mary Ann Glass explains how she captured the image: We visited an abandoned borgo — …
Our writer says: "I think Sicily is enormously appealing, intoxicating even, and above and beyond the island's natural beauty, history, traditions and cultural attractions, I love its cuisine, also quite distinct from the other regional cuisines of Italy. Spending part of a visit to Sicily in a cooking school is therefore a kind of paradiso."
