Slow Food Salone del Gusto +Lucca
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Thursday October 23 2008 $3,900.00 per person, single supplement $495.00 per person www.sapori-e-saperi.com 23 October – 1 November 2008 Imagine the most delicious food you’ve ever tasted from all around the world stretching in almost infinite variety as far as the eye can see. Now conjure up the people who grew and produced this food, many in colourful native costumes, all eager for you to taste their unique products. Then add taste workshops and dinners in the best Piemontese restaurants, and you have an inkling of the delights of Slow Food’s biennial Salone del Gusto, an enormous food fair held in the Lingotto Fiere, the historic Fiat factory in Turin. This adventure begins at the Salone del Gusto and includes a private walking tour of Turin’s elegant baroque architecture. After an orgy of seeing and tasting, we proceed to Sapori e Saperi’s home territory of Lucca and the Garfagnana for a bit of action behind the scenes. The olive harvest is just beginning and you will pick your own olives, take them to the press and see them pressed into oil. We penetrate the mysterious chestnut forests to discover firsthand how chestnuts are dried to make flour.A walk through the woods to Beppe’s metato(chestnut-drying house) and Marco’s Cinta Senese pig herd. There’s plenty of tasting, eating and drinking here too: wine tasting and meals in family restaurants, plus a visit to a handloom cashmere scarf factory and a factory that still makes hand-rolled cigars (but not on bare thighs à la Carmen) and for chocoholics a visit to a chocolate laboratorio. Wine tasting at Fattoria Colleverde whose small organic production includes some of the best wines of the Colline Lucchesi territory. A hands-on cooking lesson with Gianluca Pardini, who teaches in America and Japan as well as running his own school in his native town of Lucca. His deep knowledge of the local cuisine combined with his lively sense of humour make his lessons both fun and informative. Lunch at Il Vecchio Mulino where you feast on an extraordinary array of the best produce the Garfagnana has to offer in Andrea Bertucci’s alternative gastronomic universe Escorted throughout by Heather Jarman (Garfagnana) and Ann Meyer (WA) For more information please go to www.sapori-e-saperi.com or www.cookingwithmeyer.com |
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