The Best New Year’s Eve Cocktails | Learnist

It just wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without something fizzy and festive in hand. What do you like to drink when the ball drops? via The Best New Year’s Eve Cocktails | Learnist. Related articles Boston’s Best New Year’s Eve Parties Hugh Hefner Getting Married New Year’s Eve New Years Eve 2013

Different types of wine | Visual.ly

  With over 1,300 different wine grapes out there how do you find wines you’ll like? Discover similar tasting wines with this chart of almost 200 different types of wine. Organized by style and then flavor, it’s easy to see the taste relationships and look for synonymous wines. A great exploratory tool for a wine [...]

Food app Burpple takes a cue from Foursquare with location-based friend, restaurant discovery

  Food journaling app Burpple has furthered its focus on social and location after it introduced Explore, a feature that brings Foursquare-like discovery and friend-finding to the service. Burpple, for those that are not aware, is a 6-month-old service where food lovers can snap, post and share food/drink-related snaps from their iOS smartphone. It’s based [...]

Which Thanksgiving Side Dish Wins on Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

  So long, spuds. Catch ya later, yams. Go forth and multiply, green beans. The most popular side dish at Thanksgiving, as rated by the number of mentions on Twitter and Facebook in recent months, is a turkey’s best friend: stuffing. Out of more than 150,000 tweets and updates about “Thanksgiving dinner” collected by the [...]

25 best restaurants in Italy

  First came The Daily Meal’s 101 Best Restaurants in America, then 101 Best Hotel Restaurants Around the World. Now, The Daily Meal has set its sights on Europe. Each week this fall, The Daily Meal will highlight the best restaurants in various regions in Europe, culminating with the debut of our first list of [...]

16 Deliciously Goooood Avocado Recipes You Have to Try

  Try these 16 Deliciously Goooood Avocado Recipes. From the savoury to the sweet, these avocado recipes will likely send your tastebuds reeling, let alone your imagination of what you could do with the humble avocado. Click through to see how to make these handpicked avocado dishes and let me know how you go. PS: [...]

Eat Like an Ikarian – NYTimes.com

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If you want to live as long as the inhabitants of Ikaria, whom Dan Buettner wrote about in this Sunday’s magazine, you might want to start by eating like one. Don’t be daunted by their habit of walking out into the fields and returning with what Buettner describes as “handfuls of weedlike greens.” Unless you [...]

Marche or Le Marche in the “International Cuisine”

Geography: Marche is a region located in the central area of Italy with a long coastal area which is up to 173 km. The land is mostly hilly except for a very narrow coastal strip. The areas nearer the coastal plain are celebrated for their fertile rounded hills topped by ancient fortified towns. The inland mountainous [...]

Jamie Oliver brings his Italian chain to Asia

Following fellow celebs Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali, the TV chef’s Asian debut will open in Singapore next year. Jamie’s Italian, one of several restaurant brands owned by the 37-year-old British TV star famed for waging war on unhealthy eating, will start serving diners at Singapore’s VivoCity — a lifestyle/retail complex across from Sentosa Island [...]

A Tour of Italy in the Kitchen: Le Marche

Marche boasts some of the most pristine coastline along the Adriatic Sea, along with the Apennine Mountains and rich fertile hillsides, ideal for grapevines. Marche is Italy’s secret culinary region. Marche cuisine consists of truffles and robust cheeses from the mountains, tender hams and salame, and brodetto (fish soup). Olives are valued in Marche for [...]

Pasta Names and Shapes… Explained!

Bucatini, spaghetti, tortellini, rigatoni: There are hundreds of kinds of Italian pastas, and each one has its own, special name. That’s pretty confusing… but it’s also fun! We’ve said many times before that Italian food is regional (in fact, there’s no such thing as “Italian food”). Pasta is a major part of that. Local kinds [...]

Roast chicken with lemon, bay leaves and pepper

The lemon and bay give the meat a fragrant lift Ingredients for 4 Free range chicken – 1.5kg/3.5lbs Extra virgin olive oil crushed with lemons – 2 tblsp Lemons – 2 Bay leaves – 15 Black pepper – 2 tblsp freshly ground Sea salt – 1 tsp Click for directions See on dolcevitadiaries.com