Category: culinary travel

Talking Roman Cuisine with Chef Guido Santi

From his kitchen in the Sabine hills, Chef Guido Santi of Convivio Rome talks about the region’s fine olive oil and the history of the traditional food that became known as Roman cuisine.

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Goat Butchery and Belgian Bier with Dave the Butcher

We had a great time at the Butchery and Belgian Bier event over at La Trappe in San Francisco’s North Beach. Dinner was nothing short of surreal. The setting, you see, was the basement bar of La Trappe, a restaurant on the fringes of San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood, called North Beach. It was rather dark, except for a corner in which a butcher table was set up. A chain with grappling hooks occupied the corner ominously. It was like a party in a dungeon. As someone who enjoys medieval festivals in Italy, this is not necessarily a bad thing, atmospherically speaking…

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