Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers are headed to Lombardia to explore the foods and wines of the region. Jeff of  Food Wine Click!  is hosting and you can read his invitation here . If you are reading this early enough feel free to join our live chat on Twitter. We'll be there on Saturday, August 7th at 8am Pacific time. Just follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add it to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the Lombardia line-up from the group... A Taste of Franciacorta with Ca' Del Bosco by Vino Travels A Tour of Wines of Lombardia and Toasting to Lugana by Joy of Wine Franciacorta is Lombardia's Challenge to Champagn e by Food Wine Click! Getting to know Oltrepo' Pavese Wines from Lombardy by Avvinare Hot Summer Nights and Northern Italian White and Our Favorite Antipasto Platter by Our Good Life Indestructible in Valtellina - Barbacan and the Sega Family by Savor the Harvest Italy’s Large, Lovely Lombardia, Home to Lugan...

This month the Italian Food, Wine & Travel - #ItalianFWT - blogging group is traveling to Lombardia. Follow along the journey with my fellow #ItalianFWT bloggers.  You can also chat with us live this Saturday morning at 11am EST on Twitter at #ItalianFWT.  Hope to see you there! Plus, don't miss next month as we feature our last region of Italy, Liguria.  This will complete our first full tour of Italy.  See you June 4th! To Lombardia One of Italy’s largest regions, Lombardy lies in the north, sharing a border with Switzerland and stretching from the Alps to the lowlands of the Po Valley. The region is known particularly for its sparkling wines made in the Franciacorta and Oltrepò Pavese areas. They also produce red, white and rosé wines made from a local and and other grapes including Nebbiolo wines in the Valtellina region, Trebbiano di Lugana white wines produced with the Chiaretto style rosé along the shores of Lake Garda. ...