itinerant gastronomer

Wow!  It’s been a whirlwind here these past few days.  Friday evening I was making soup for dinner in per Coccia and next thing I know, I’m in Torino, then

Ciao! Tonight I’m making zuppa!  Pino’s children will be here and so J and I have started putting together our meal tonight.  It’s my first time cooking here!  Wait, no,

Final update for the day.  After spending four hours with machetes, hacking away at hazelnut trees, Pino requested we hop into the grocery store to pick up some beer and

  Palazzo Carignano, is a very important Baroque style building in Italy.  This picture is to show the dominance over the American Indians (Native Americans, I can never determine which

Ciao! So it’s been very busy since I arrived here at Carossa.  I’m technically not at Carossa vineyard, but at a small farmhouse in per Coccia.  We’re not far from

Again, exhausted.  I’m going to try and update tomorrow morning instead.  We went into Turino tonight.  Wow, what  a city. Until tomorrow, JT

Ciao! I am at my next WWOOF spot and I am so very tired!  So I’m just going to add pictures and describe them:This is me standing at the top

….Says Giovanni when he first puts a piece of curried chicken in his mouth.  He pulls his napkin to his mouth and is just yelling into it with his eyes

Wow.  It was so easy to get from Alessandria to Santa Margherita by train.  Italian people complain about their train system the same way we complain about our metro system,

Today began with a lot of hoes.  Seriously, Paolo presented us with three hoes – two skinny ones and a third larger one.  He walked us to his new vines,