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 [...]

For Heineken, A Bottle-Shaped Book

  Creative agency Cloud Factory has designed a bottle-shaped book for Dutch brewing company, Heineken. Called the ‘Heineken Bottle Book’, it serves as the company’s new global brand book that brings across the message: “Heineken is forward thinking, worldly and inventive”. According to Cloud Factory, it said that the book employs “folding and binding techniques” [...]

Food Safety Tips for Home and Away – Guest Post | Vallarta Escapes

Tacos

If you’re in a non-English speaking country, it’s a good idea to get referrals from other travellers and your travel agent if possible as well as having a phrase book on hand to help translate the menu and avoid potentially risky dishes. Do some research online or at the library to better understand the cuisine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Potato Focaccia With Caramelized Onion, Black Olives, & Rosemary

The addition of potato to the dough creates a very tender focaccia with a crisp crust. Ingredients: 1 Large Potato, Peeled & Diced 4 Cups All-purpose Flour 2 1/2 Teaspoons Instant Active Dry Yeast 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil 1 Teaspoon Salt Warm Water Topping: 4 Medium To Large Sweet Onions, Peeled & Thinly Sliced 2 [...]

31 Lentil Recipes We Love

Do you ever wish more foods were reliably cheap, healthy and tasty? Lentils meet all three of those criteria! Overlooked by many a supermarket shopper, protein-rich lentils are faster than other types of dried legumes to prepare, and they easily absorb your favorite flavors from other foods and seasonings. As a result, you can never [...]

Old is gold in Pasta making: Azienda Luzi – Fior di Pietra, San Lorenzo in Campo PU

Luzi Farm uses only its own stone-mill to obtain functional flours from the best wheat, rich in minerals, vitamins, fibre and characterized by its germ which is the real soul of flour. The handcrafted pasta produced, consists of stone-milled flour, bronze drawing, low temperature slow drying process. The specialities DURUM WHEAT PASTA SPELT WHEAT PASTA [...]

Casalfarneto 2012 – Fourth Harvesting Day

Thursday, September 13. The Harvest operations are suspended due to bad weather that will last until Friday September 14. The winery keep to monitoring the inner processes already started See on www.youtube.com

Sea bass with capers and lemon oil

This is a very versatile dish – you can substitute many other fish, such as swordfish or grouper. The most important thing is that it’s fresh and from a sustainable source. The fish steams itself in the wrapped parchment paper and goes wonderfully with salad or greens. Ingredients for 4 Sea bass – 1 fillet [...]

Memorie di Angelina: Astice alla griglia (Grilled Lobster)

It seems I can’t get enough of grilled seafood! We’ve already featured grilled fish, grilled mollusk and grilled cephalopod, so let’s complete the series with grilled crustacean, which may be the most delicious of them all. Here in the US, we are blessed with an abundance of lobster and, much to the chagrin of lobstermen, [...]