Food and Supermarkets: Italy and the U.S.

In Siena, there is a small supermarket, Conad, which we frequented when we were in Italy. It was on the bottom floor and you rode the escalator down. They had a pretty good selection of food, including tortillas and even sour cream, both of which came in quite handy when we were craving Mexican food!! [...]

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Wurstel, Brezen, and Plans for January

Since getting back from Verona on Monday night, we’ve had a busy week. Our number one priority has been trying to plan our time once we leave Siena (at the end of December). We thought about trying to spend one or two more months elsewhere (one in the South and/or one in Verona) but realized [...]

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Verona: We ate Horse and Donkey!

Verona is such a great city! We loved getting the chance to see it! We probably would never have gotten to see it if Lawren and Steve did not live there and if they had not been so kind and let us stay with them! The guidebooks seem to overlook the majority of the cities [...]

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Cibo, That’s Italian for Food!

So maybe you are wondering why we have not really talked that much about the food we’ve been eating seeing that we are in Tuscany and we created a whole other blog so we could write about what we have been eating. Well, the simple answer is that the food is not that great here. [...]

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I can’t Believe we have never seen this before

Success!!! Today we headed over to the mercato near the Medici fortezza that is held every Wednesday. As I mentioned before, it is mostly clothing and household items (curtains, sheets etc.). Neither of us being the types to buy clothing from a man selling underwear out of the back of a van or having our [...]

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San Miniato Truffle Festival

On Sunday we headed off to San Miniato for the Mercato Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco which was being held for three weekends in November. We really did not know what to expect!

We hopped on a train here in Siena and within an hour and a half we had reached San Miniato, a small town in [...]

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A Roman Feast

Last weekend we had the opportunity to go to Roma and had a blast. One of the great things was that we were able to bring back some stuff that we purchased at the market: Spices (Cayenne and Cumin for taco night); black beans (for taco night again!); artichokes; and squash blossoms. I was really [...]

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Supersize Me

Supersize Me
In Siena, there is a small supermarket, Conde, which we have gone to twice. It is on the bottom floor, you ride the escalator down. They have a pretty good selection of food, including tortillas, considering the store is about 1/8 the size of Harris Teeter. There is a frozen food area which has [...]

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Culinary Travels in Parma

Parma at last!
So we have finally arrived (my first post from Italy)!! We arrived yesterday in Parma and are here until tomorrow when we are off to Lucca to stay with Doris. We wanted to make a point of eating some of this region’s specialties including Proscuitto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, and Lambrusco wine-un vino [...]

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