Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Wine 365 and q.b. Cucina .  Complimentary products were provided for this post  though no other compensation was received.  This page may contain affiliate links. When I received an email from my contact at Kobrand Wine and Spirits, asking if I wanted to participate in a 'Taste Authentic Italy' event, there was really only one possible answer:  Sì , certo! Yes, of course.  We emailed back and forth about my selections for the wine and artisan pasta tool - from Wine365 and q.b. Cucina*, respectively - and then I set about exploring which recipes I wanted to make. First, let's take a look at these two brands. q.b. Cucina: Brass Pasta Tools If you follow my blog or social media, you probably know how much I love words and language. So, I was especially tickled to learn the meaning behind the brand's name. According to their website, q.b. is an acronym often used in Italian recipes. The two letters stand for...

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 time around,  Simona from  Briciole   is the June-July 2019 host for  Cook the Books . She selected  Blood, Bones & Butter  by Gabrielle Hamilton* and you can read her  invitation  here . I first read this book on my way to Denmark for the holidays. But I was completely unfamiliar with Gabrielle Hamilton though, in hindsight, I have heard about her restaurants in New York. In any case, you have plenty of time to join the Cook the Books fun if you wish. On the Page I already mentioned that I read it several months ago. Here I am in an airport. Layovers aren't too torturous if you can lose yourself in a book. But I decided to revisit it before this month's posting because, I think, my brain was addled by jetlag and exhaustion; I didn't really remember what my impressions of the book were. Let alone what I would be inspired to cook from the book. Whenever I read an autobiography or a memoir, I find myself asking these two ba...

This month the Italian Food Wine & Travel group to which I belong is traveling - by table and goblet - to Puglia with Katarina of Grapevine Adventures leading the event. You can read her preview post: Wine Between Two Seas in Puglia .  About Puglia From the map you can see why she calls it 'between two seas'. Puglia forms the heel of Italy's boot. Though I never made it to Puglia in the 13 months I lived in Rome - blush, blush - I will definitely add it to my list of places I want to visit. Boasting almost 500 miles of coastline, this seaside-loving gal would be very content to find a beach, uncork a bottle, and read a book. Many books...with many bottles of wine! But I have always been intrigued by the trulli , white mushroom-shaped dwellings from the Middle Ages, in Alberobello. One of these days, I'll make it there. With a population of just 4 million, the region provides nearly half of the country's olive oil, approximately 300,000 me...