When you join up with YL Tours, you're not just visiting Puglia as a tourist, you are participating as a local immersed in some of the many day-to-day pleasures of living in this region. YL stands for Ylenia, the wonderful Puglian lady who gracious
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If you have a foodie, cook or baker on your gift list, here are a few of my favorite gifting items to consider. These items lighten the prep load with interesting and fun gadgets, accessories and ingredients. Don’t forget to gift yourself. Enjoy
Read more…Mamma Mia! This place is incredible!! Eataly Chicago is a mega food and eatery emporium of all-things Italian. It's eye candy for the foodie, foodie-wannabe, tourist and curiosity seeker. It’s two floors and 63k SF of sprawling goodness where so
Read more…I’ve had a love affair with olives since I was a young child. Whether they were small ones, big ones, ones placed on my finger tips and then eaten, black or green, stuffed, dry cured, as a tapenade, added to salads, spreads or sauces, used as topp
Read more…Outside Spain, almost any Spanish restaurant throughout the world proudly serves this rice dish, studded most commonly with fish, shellfish, and select veggies. But within the country, unless a restaurant caters to tourists, paella is found largely i
To most non-Spaniards, the historic city and region of Valencia is most famous for paella and oranges. There is, however, an incredible edible número tres you probably haven’t heard of.
Even though it’s popular throughout Spain, for whatever reason th
Winemaker dinner featuring the Tuscan wines of Castello d'Alboa and food pairings at Roberto's Ristorante.
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Read more…Recent reviews of products that are ideal for the green and toxin free kitchen.
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Read more…A review of several of the Mondavi labels featured at a winemaker dinner.
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Read more…October is Italian Heritage Month....
PART ONE features history, recipes and products from DE CECCO PASTA, plus a commemorative overview of a special exhibition at Chicago's Field Musuem..."Opening the Vaults: The Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair",
Read more…Somewhat similar in feel and concept to Spain’s tapas bars, the unpretentious meyhanes of Istanbul, Turkey are a world unto themselves, frequented by young and old, rich and poor, fancy and dowdy — they’re probably the only spots in the city where yo
All about the recent "Allegrini Palazzo Della Torre Cook-Off for a Cause".
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Read more…Already known as a land of diversity, Southern California has some spots where the cultures really steep in the melting pot.
Just east of downtown Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley has historically been the locale of cheaper land prices and a "liv
Read more…After telling a friend about a good dining deal inToronto— her own home town — she said, “I’ll have to go there; I don’t know that restaurant.” Understandable. Canada‘s largest city is as rich in restaurants as it is in museums, galleries, theaters,
The many immigrants who’ve made Paris home over the years have left an exotic mark tasty enough to justify a visit by itself — especially if you’re curious about unusual cuisines that may be hard to find even in, say, New York, London, or Los Angeles
TERRY'S SECOND HELPINGS officially launches with this article, a compendium of receipes, tips and observations.
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Read more…TERRY'S SECOND HELPINGS officially launched with this article, a compendium of food related recipes, tips and observations.
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