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April 28, 2013New Farm Food Stories

Best…..Pinolate

Like a fruit bat hunting for a mango tree, my super senses spotted the home made torte sitting on the bar of the restaurant. ‘It’s homemade Pinolate’, the waitress said. Pinolate is a light Siena cake with pine nuts and a ribbon of custard cream through the middle. Not overly sweet, the cake has now […]

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April 26, 2013New Farm Food Stories

Bologna Cooking School

The cuisine of Bologna is vey specific and revolves around cooking a few dishes very well and with the best ingredients. The specialities of the region is tagliatelle with ragu (the ubiquitous bolognese sauce), tortollini either in broth or with butter and sage and lasagne. A day at the Bologna Cooking School will get you […]

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April 22, 2013New Farm Food Stories

Five Days in Vernazza

Vernazza, one of the five villages in the Cinque Terra, is an impossibly perfect slice of Italian life. During the day, waves of sightseers wash down from the train station into the square and then onto the ferry to the next town. Later in the afternoon, guided walking groups stagger down steep stairs still gasping […]

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April 18, 2013New Farm Food Stories

Dinner at Belforte

The old fort is perched on the edge of the Harbour at Vernazza. Hanging off the side is a small veranda with six tables, perfectly situated to watch the Mediterrenean sunset. The best time is from 7.30pm to catch the sun dropping over the Hills behind Monterossa. The menu, as expected, is based around fresh, […]

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April 17, 2013April 17, 2013New Farm Food Stories

Top Times at the Top Hotel

The Top Hotel on the edge of Prague is 800 rooms of unreconstructed Soviet gulag. It was the venue for this year’s public management conference and it offers the kind of experience which lingers in the subconscious in different nightmarish guises for some time. As Rod Rhodes said when he picked up his lifetime achievement award […]

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