Montepulciano, Italy
10 March, 2010
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 [...]
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:
…but check out my WBW post on The Tawny Times. A tasting post about Brachetto d’Acqui.
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 [...]

