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Corteforte and Enoteca della Valpolicella 29 Jun 2013 | 07:40 pm
The Valpolicella wine zone is located in the province of Verona, east of Lake Garda, and north of the Adige River. A great place to enjoy both cycling and wine, we visited here recently on one of our ...
Lessons on Amarone – with Lucia Rinaldi of Villa Monteleone 21 Jun 2013 | 05:46 pm
Our last Italiaoutdoors Food and Wine custom bike trip to Italy included a visit to an Amarone producer. Our clients were big fans of Amarone, and I wanted to take them someplace special. I didn’t wan...
A Very Special Day on Our Prosecco Wine Tour – Col del Lupo 2 Jun 2013 | 11:38 pm
A highlight of our Bike the Prosecco Wine Roads tour is a visit to a Prosecco producer. Just getting there is a pleasure. To quote a guest, “This is the most beautiful bike ride I’ve ever done.” We ta...
The Negroni – Reinvented 28 May 2013 | 07:04 pm
While I’ve been busy leading our Bike the Prosecco Wine Roads tour, I’ve enlisted the help of my first guest blogger, my husband and Negroni fan, Gordy Bechtel. Is it possible to make the Negroni bet...
Torta al Vino Rosso con Fregola – Red Wine Chocolate Cake with Strawberries 12 May 2013 | 09:49 pm
This recipe was recently featured in an article in La Cucina Italiana magazine, entitled Italy’s Best Desserts. The author is Francine Segan, a food historian and the author of a new book, Dolci: Ital...
Grilled Pecorino with Fava Bean Salad 5 May 2013 | 09:54 pm
Fava beans, or broad beans (fava is Italian for ‘broad bean’) have been cultivated in the Old World for thousands of years. Along with lentils, peas and chickpeas, these easy to grow beans have been p...
White Asparagus of Bassano del Grappa 30 Apr 2013 | 07:22 pm
One of our favorite towns to visit on our cycling tours is the beautiful historic Pre Alps town of Bassano del Grappa. Our spring trips in the area give us the opportunity to indulge in the area’s ren...
Porchetta – Umbria’s Famed Roast Pork 22 Apr 2013 | 12:29 am
For me, a trip to an Umbrian market is not complete without a stop by a porchettai, a vendor in a white van hawking delicious porchetta sandwiches, a large sandwich of savory roasted pork on a fresh w...
Pane di Zucca 7 Apr 2013 | 06:39 pm
For a couple of weeks now I have been staring at my last winter pumpkin, waiting for some inspiration to determine it’s fate. After my travels last year to Ferrara, the “City of Squash Eaters”, I cove...
Easy Rice Pudding – Riso al Latte con Fregole e Mandorle 3 Apr 2013 | 12:35 am
Our cycling tours in the Veneto bring us along the fertile valleys of rivers such as the Po, Brenta and Adige. These valleys offer us some wonderful terrain – scenic, yet flat – and a wide variety of ...
