Cooking at the Villa Cooking classes and wine tours in Verona

Verona offers information on events directly from its office located in the Arena square and through this useful link http://www.tourism.verona.it/_vti_g2_evHi.aspx?rpstry=31_
Follow this link http://www.arena.it/en-US/HOMEen.html for a full calendar on the summer opera season.

Carnival’s arriving…
This year March 8 marks both Women’s day and Mardi Gras.
Women’s day was decreed in 1910 in memory of 129 women workers who died in 1908 in a fire inside the factory after days of strike in which they had asked for better working conditions.
The carnival in Verona as [...]

The Rice Fair - September 15 - October 10, 2010
The Rice Fair of Isola della Scala is at its 44th edition and once again it proves to be the greatest event in this field, as testified by these figures: 500,000 visitors and 350,000 portions of risotto supplied.
The several meetings arranged in Europe [...]

REGIONAL COOKING NOW AVAILABE
Cooking Sicilian
The food from the island of Sicily is in my view is one of the best. It varies  a lot like in any other region in Italy, depending on the vicinity to the sea, inland, mountain and so on. What’s better than pasta alla norma to start with or friselle, a [...]

In my last newsletter I mentioned meat tortellini which my family have been making for quite a while. It all started when my grandfather known to be a big eater , married a great cook, a woman coming from the eastern province of Verona.
My grandfather (from mom’s side), whose father was from a town near [...]

Luisa’s got a new kitchen!
Last October a renewal has started at Luisa’s estate. The main work has been done at ground floor; there is now a large brand  new kitchen where there was once a studio and in the studio there is a livingroom-diningroom. The fireplace (sic…) has been replaced by a wood burner, but [...]