Entries from June 2007

Valrhona Chocolate Box and Swiss Chocolate

June 27th, 2007 · 12 Comments

New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!Today I’m heading to a country known for its cheese and chocolate (and not France). I’m heading to Switzerland on business. Since chocolate is on my mind (I hope at least to bring back [...]

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Tags: Chocolate · Discovering Food · Food · France · Travels Abroad

Watermelon Sorbetto Granita from The Perfect Scoop

June 25th, 2007 · 19 Comments

It’s officially summertime here, and with it comes the hot weather I have come to associate with Italian summers. When it’s this hot, I find it hard to eat a normal meal, and often at lunchtime I have a “meal replacement” in the form of a nice gelato or ghiacciolo (ice pop/popsicle).
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Tags: Dessert · Food · Gelato · Italy · Recipe

My Big Secret (And Shipping Restricted Items to Italy)

June 21st, 2007 · 34 Comments

So, now that it’s over, I can let you in on a big secret.

Yesterday, a package arrived, long overdue and highly anticipated. Quite overdue since my estimated time delivery window expired a few weeks ago and usually with Amazon I never have problems with on-time deliveries to Italy. So I opened a troubleshooter email [...]

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Tags: Bureaucracy · Culture · Italy · Milan

Fuzzy Monday, Italy news & Music

June 18th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Even this picture is a bit fuzzy, which is how I’m feeling. I had a busy weekend. I cooked a lot and though I would like a break, it has somehow given me more ideas and energized me to do more!
I received free tickets to Heineken’s Jammin Festival (last year I saw Depeche Mode [...]

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Tags: Culture · Italy · Milan · Rome

Alchechengi - My Introduction to the Winter Cherry

June 15th, 2007 · 40 Comments

It looked so promising, wrapped up like that. I actually wasn’t planning on buying any chocolate when I entered the store. I just wanted to know why there were so many people inside and what was drawing them to this corner pasticceria. Was it the coffee? There was a crowd around the bar.
As I [...]

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Tags: Chocolate · Discovering Food · Food · Italy · Milan

Bicerin and Caffe Shakerato at Baratti and Milano

June 13th, 2007 · 7 Comments

And some information about the fabled ChocoPass!
When I went to Turin last time, I stopped with my father at the famous Baratti & Milano cafe’, right near the Piazza del Castello. I had eaten their chocolate before so I was familiar with them, but hadn’t been inside the cafe’ before. The cafe’ itself is very [...]

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Tags: Chocolate · Discovering Food · Food · Italy · Piemonte

KaDeWe - Kaufhaus des Westens: Food Shopping Heaven in Berlin

June 11th, 2007 · 16 Comments

I had read something about KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) department store before arriving in Berlin. I had heard that the sixth floor was a sight to see with its large selection of food items, but to be honest, I really wasn’t prepared.
Strangely on the Berlin trip I wasn’t in shopping mode which was probably [...]

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Tags: Berlin · Discovering Food · Food · Travels Abroad

Digestive Sugar and Bush Visiting Trastevere

June 8th, 2007 · 10 Comments

I’m sure everyone is pretty comfortable with the concept of a digestive (liquor). But did you know that you can take a digestive sugar?
As I showed Shelley this past weekend in Milan, there exists something as wonderful as zucchero matricale, “medicinal/digestive sugar” here. Sugar that you can, nay, you MUST eat to make sure [...]

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Tags: Culture · Discovering Italy · Food · Italy · Milan · Rome