by Lucy Gordan | Aug 9, 2010 | Food, Food blog
MUNICH’S TEMPLE TO GOURMET DINING Text ©2010 For over three decades Tantris in Munich’s non-descript residential neighborhood of Schwabing has been one of the best restaurants in the city, in Bavaria, and in all of Germany. “This attitude to life” was the brain-child...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 11, 2010 | Food, Food blog
Text ©2010 Born in Rijeka in Istria, Daniela Kramaric not only became the first woman sommelier in Croatia, but also its best in 2001 and 2002. In 2002 she was also chosen the best sommelier for Central and Eastern Europe. Then she stopped competing to be the...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 11, 2010 | Food, Food blog
text ©2010 On November 2, 1999, a white truffle or Tuber Magnatum Pico, the most prestigious of underground “mushrooms,” forever changed the life of Giancarlo Zigante, born on June 23, 1950 in Plovanija, in the northwest corner of Istria, not far from the common...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 11, 2010 | Food, Food blog
Interview ©2010 Emanuele and Michela Scarello Born in Udine on the 11th of July 1970, Emanuele Scarello is the chef/owner of “Agli Amici” in Godia, a charming rustic town, famous for its potatoes, five miles from Udine. “Agli Amici” has had a Michelin star...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 11, 2010 | Food, Food blog
Interview ©2010 photos courtesy of Elena Kostioukovitch Elena Kostioukovitch was born in Kiev in 1958, studied in Moscow, and moved to Italy in 1988. She is a professor at the University of Milan, an essayist, a translator, a literary agent and an author. Her 1988...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 11, 2010 | Food, Food blog
text ©2010 An Aries, Gennaro Esposito was born 37 years ago at Vico Equense, a charming if chaotic town on the breathtakingly beautiful Amalfi Coast. There were two determining moments in his professional formation: an internship with Gianfranco Vissani, Italy’s...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
THE ONLY ITALIAN CHEF OUTSIDE ITALY WITH TWO MICHELIN STARS Interview ©2009 by Lucy Gordan Born in Ponte di Legno, a small town in Lombardy’s province of Brescia, Ilario Mosconi, aged 51, moved to Esch-Sur-Alzette in southern Luxembourg when he was thirteen....
by Lucy Gordan | Sep 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
Interview ©2009 Léa Linster photo by Marc Theis A born gourmet, buoyant Léa Linster (www.lealinster.lu) put Luxembourgian cuisine on the world map when in 1989 she became the first female prizewinner of the Bocuse d’Or, the highest distinction in the...
by Lucy Gordan | Aug 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
Text ©2009 Photos ©2009 by Guy Hoffmann As the book flap of her splendid book, Culinary Luxembourg, says “Sylvie Bisdorff is the owner of Hotel-Restaurant Bisdorff in Berdof. This address is known throughout Luxembourg for its traditional cuisine: at the...
by Lucy Gordan | Aug 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
FROM CHILD-PRODIGY TO TV CELEBRITY CHEF text ©2009 photos by Tim Bradley, Rochdale Observer A gregarious and flamboyant Virgo, dynamic Andrew Nutter won his first cooking award at age 13 and opened his first restaurant named Nutters sixteen years ago at...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
Text & photos ©2009 Few foreigners would ever dream that along with pasta and gelato another multi-regional Italian dish is trippa or tripe, inexpensive, often stewed in tomato sauce and topped with grated cheese. An acquired taste even for Italians,...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 9, 2009 | Food, Food blog
Text ©2009 Owned by the Alaimo/Conticello family for five generations, since 1834 L’Antica Focacceria San Francesco (Via A. Paternostro 58, tel. 011-39-091-320264) has been an institution in Palermo, and since 1939 a national monument. With a university degree...
