Acqui e Sapori - Acqui Terme

Every year in november there's a food fair in Acqui Terme: "Acqui e Sapori" with on sunday a truffle exhibition.

I made some pictures to give you an idea:

Wine: visit to cantina La Maranzana

It doesn't matter if you're into wine or not, when you live in a wine region like ours wine becomes part of your life. But I don't think that's a big problem for most of us ;-)

Sunday we were invited at cantina La Maranzana, in the middle of the most beautiful vineyards you can imagine. It was foggy, so we weren't lucky with the views, but we had our own private tour in the cantina and they spoiled us with food and wine. The best of all : if we ask them, they will organise also a private tour of the cantina for our guests.

Following other blogs (part 1): Casa Dolcetto

Like a lot of other people I love to follow blogs. They give you new insights, they reveal little gems to visit and offer a lot of usefull information.
I'm particularly interested in blogs from people who live in the neighboorhood. As I only moved here in june 2008 I still have a lot to explore and then it's easy to use other blogs for finding out what the possibilities are.

One of the blogs I discovered is the one from "Casa Dolcetto": http://casadolcetto.blogspot.com.
If you want to visit Piedmont, there are some interesting articles you can read:

• Top 10 tips for Turin: http://casadolcetto.blogspot.com/2009/10/top-10-tips-for-turin.html
• Reflections of Bergolo: http://casadolcetto.blogspot.com/2009/10/reflections-of-bergolo.html
• Truly Truffle Town (about Alba): http://casadolcetto.blogspot.com/2009/10/truly-truffle-town.html
• A brief look at Cuneo: http://casadolcetto.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-look-at-cuneo.html

Do you know other interesting blogs I could follow?

Truffles

May I present you, Roberto, one of our local truffle hunters. These days you can't find him home most of the times, because it's truffle season. For him, it's not only a way to make money, but it's his passion and that you can see because he love sharing his stories about truffles and he shows people how he finds them. That's rare in a profession like his, because we're talking about big money.


Did you know that in Alba they just sold a truffle of 750 gr. for 100 000 euro?

Well, knowing this, you can imagine that most truffle hunters aren't very willing to share their secrets. Villagers told us there was even a man who wore his boots in the wrong direction so that others wouldn't know where he went !

But Roberto is different. Ok, he will not show the most secret places but since we opened our agriturismo he took a lot of our guests on a truffle walk and showed them how his dogs find these expensive delicacies.

Bomba di riso

Today I made a bomba di riso, ... why they call it a bomb?

Well, I think I understand now after eating it: the amount of cheese in it make it, well, very very heavy.

But it's delicious, and that's what food is all about in my opinion. Sorry, no counting calories for me.