It is no secret that I love salumi and all things pork. And I have a great fondness for wine. So when I received an invitation to attend the Celebration of the pig event at the De Bortoli winery in the Yarra Valley I could hardly resist.I hadn’t visited the De Bortoli winery for many years – I […]Read Post ›
We went to the town of Mansfield to stay with friends a few weekends ago. It was a rather wet and cold weekend as we drove the two and a half hours from Melbourne to the Victorian High Country. Pamela and Stuart live in a divine modern house on several hundred acres that was featured […]Read Post ›
Making tomato passata (sauce) is an annual ritual for many Italian families that coincides with the end of summer. Australians reading this post might remember the movie Looking for Alibrandi (with Greta Scacchi, Pia Miranda and Anthony LaPaglia) made in 2000, which starts with teenager Josie Alibrandi begrudgingly participating in her family’s tomato day, or […]Read Post ›
Bonegilla migrant camp and the Melbourne my parents knew after they migrated from Italy has been in my thoughts for the last few days after going to the cinema last weekend. Together with the family, I went to the premiere of the evocative documentary “Lygon Street – si parla italiano” (we speak Italian) at the […]Read Post ›
italy on my mind 