The Italian cuisine closest to that of Italian mothers is the one offered by many small restaurants, taverns and trattorias…where you can still find the most authentic regional cuisine, without an excessive expense. However, it may happen to a traveler to feel “lost” while hearing a waiter saying the sentence “fuori menù, oggi, abbiamo...”. It literally means: in addition to what appears on the [...]
What are the ingredients for a good cheese? Obviously good milk and a cheesemaker respectful of the rules of cleanliness and tradition. Even before, however, it is important to feed the animals that produce milk! That's why the cheeses from the Alpine valleys are so extraordinarily good: there are no intensive farms, the animals graze outdoors for more than 8 months a year and [...]
The first time I "saw" someone playing the goat violino, it was in the hands of my friend Stefano Masanti, patron and chef of Il Cantinone Restaurant in Madesimo. Violin? Goat? Let's put some order to learn about this gourmet rarity, produced in Valchiavenna, a small alpine valley in North Como. Throughout the Alps there are different methods of preserving meat based on dehydration: [...]