Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  Welcome to the September Italian Food Wine Travel discussion of the Wines of Marche or Verdicchio Matelica & Jesi. Marcia of Joy of Wine is hosting. You may read her invitation here . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our Twitter chat on Saturday, September 4th. We'll be live at 8am Pacific. Just follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here are #ItalianFWT articles about Verdicchio... Baked Tomatoes Marchigiano Style and a Verdicchio Wine by A Day in the Life on the Farm Cascatelli, a Brand New Pasta Shape, plus Pievalta Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore 2017 by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Exploring Verdicchio: One of Italy’s Most Ageable White Grapes by Joy of Wine Le Marche Italy - Verdicchio and Beyond by Crushed Grape Chronicles Cantine Belisario Cambrugiano Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva with Brodetto alla Recanatese by Somm's Table Querciantica Verdicchio - A ...

This month the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers are focusing on Springtime and Verdicchio. I'm hosting and you can read my invitation here and the sneak peak here ! When I first decided to host the April event, I had grand plans to get lots of Italian Easter recipes and collect wine pairing suggestions for those dishes. But someone reminded me that our event was after Easter, so...less relevant. And with a three-day run at the Silicon Valley Regional competition for FIRST Robotics with my older son's team, I didn't even have a chance to cook Easter brunch. Usually I create an Easter feast for my parents and their friends. This year, my mom and dad took us - and their friends - to lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, La Balena . So, a focus on Springtime it was...and the Verdicchio grape. Verdicchio is one of the most widely planted white grape varieties in the Marche region. It's the grape behind two of the Marche's most important DOCs – Verdicchio ...