Winter in a Tuscan Vineyard

Montepulciano, Italy
10 March, 2010

The Roman souvenir you DON’T want

So you’ve arrived at your hotel in Rome to discover you’ve dropped your passport somewhere between border control and the check-in desk. Luckily, you made color photocopies of your passport before you left and this gets you checked in. (Do NOT tell the desk agent your passport is missing.)
Scratching a few things off the Roman [...]

7 weeks in Siena

Many have asked where I will be going for my language course. At Dante Alighieri in Siena, I will be taking 15 hours of group class, 4 hours of private lesson and 2 culinary courses per week. Here is where the school is located:

WBW #54 – On the Tawny Times

…but check out my WBW post on The Tawny Times. A tasting post about Brachetto d’Acqui.

Expressing passion – The beginnings of a mission statement

I thought I would share the essay that I submitted for my application to the IACP for the scholarship I was awarded in 2008. I reference this a lot when I get discouraged and I will eventually rework this into a mission statement for Vineyard Adventures.
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I became a Slow Food member six years ago believing [...]

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