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Rachel Priestley, a cook and wine and food consultant, has opened Italian restaurants and wine bars in Italy and in Vienna. Passionate about Italian food, she has spent 10 years living and working in Italy, including six years in Tuscany. She exports a line of gourmet artisan-produced Italian products and fine Italian wines into New Zealand, where she produces a range of products. She divides her time between Tuscany and New Zealand. You can contact her at info@prodigal-daughter.com and follow her on twitter: @ProdigaDaughter.
At this time of year, as people plan to host family, friends and colleagues, they often worry about making the right choices of wine. When asked, I suggest deciding on the menu first and developing the wine list to follow, or vice versa. My general advice, however, is bubbles first.
Finally! A real Italian invitation to go olive picking-to experience picking olives in the countryside followed by a long Italian lunch. I called my host, Giacomo, only three times on my way to ask for more precise directions (and turned the car around twice without telling). After arriving
My first-floor apartment in Florence has a private garden outside the back door-and a wine bar outside my front door. Fuori Porta is right below me, and the kitchen’s ...
The French omelette and the Italian frittata are just about as different from each other as the French are from the Italians. One is all fluff and show, a bit like a peacock showing its tail. Don't get me wrong: I love a good French omelette-the lightness of
