Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the Italian Food Wine Travel writers are looking at the Slow Food Movement. Here's the invitation from Gwendolyn: read it .  If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join in our Twitter chat. We will be live on Saturday, April 2nd. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add it to anything you tweet, so we can see it. Here are the articles that the writers have planned... Jennifer shares Slow Wine and Food of Madrevite on Vino Travels. Deanna delights with Montenidoli Il Templare White Wine + Wood Fired Pizza on Wineivore. Camilla offers Buono, Pulito, e Giusto: Lemon-Stuffed Chicken, Preserved Lemons, and an Umbrian Chardonnay at Culinary Adventures with Camilla. Nicole has Old World/New World Explorations of Malvasia on Somm's Table. Wendy does Spezzatino d'agnello and a G.D. Vajra Albe for A Day in the Life on the Farm. Terri pairs Grassfed Meatballs and Caiarossa Toscana on Our Good Life. On Wine Predator, hosts Gwendolyn and Sue ar...

Since I knew that the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers would be focusing on Sagrantino this year, I was excited to pick up this bottle at the grocery store when I was in Denmark. We served it on New Year's Eve with some rosehip glazed chicken. That recipe will be coming soon. For now, I just wanted to share my thoughts on this first Sagrantino I opened in preparation. Made by the Cecchi family in Umbria - who have been making wine since the late 19th century - this wine is made from 100% Sagrantino grapes. Aged for 16 months in barriques and a minimum of 8 months in the bottle, this is not a wine for the faint of heart...or palate! Vivid red with an intense nose, the level of tannins straddles a fine line between balanced and aggressive. But I enjoyed this and felt it matched the roasted chicken with piquant rosehip glaze really well.

This month the Italian Food, Wine & Travel - #ItalianFWT - blogging group is traveling to their twelfth region of Italy: Umbria. I'm joining for the just the third time and was thrilled to be heading to Umbria by goblet since I never made it there in real life. Umbria is bordered by Tuscany to the west, Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. Partly hilly and partly flat, and fertile owing to the valley of the Tiber, its topography includes part of the central Apennines. Completely landlocked, it is the only Italian region having neither a coastline nor a common border with other countries. http://www.italy-wine-food-pairing.com/ Poet Giosuè Carducci writes about Umbria, il cuore verde d'Italia,  'the green heart of Italy.' Oscure intanto fumano le nubi su l'Apennino: grande, austera, verde da le montagne digradanti in cerchio l'Umbria guarda.  Follow along the Umbria journey with my other Umbrian fans; you can also chat ...