Calabria: Savouring Italy’s South

In Italy’s south lies a peninsula within a peninsula, the region of Calabria.  The toe of the boot as it is often referred to, has an incredible geographic makeup.  A mountainous landscape of hill-top towns, juxtaposed against dense forests, overlooking a dramatic Mediterranean coastline.   Calabria, much like Sicily, has been shaped by its contact […]

Tasting Tuscany with Chef Silvia Baracchi

Giuseppe Verdi once said “You may have the universe if I may have Italy” to which I would specify, Tuscany.  It is perhaps my favourite region in Italy; the rolling hills, olive groves, fields of sunflowers and lush vineyards from which some of the most extraordinary tastes are cultivated.  Tastes such as the ones I […]

CENTITALIA: A Taste of Piemonte with Chef Ugo Mura

Chef Ugo Mura was one of four chefs who came over from Italy to be a part of the CENTITALIA Gusto Cultura Program (a collaboration between the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario (ICCO) and Centennial College).Hailing from Piemonte, he has had a lucrative career, having worked in many prestigious hotels across the region and […]

CENTITALIA! Extraordinary Italian Taste

Luciano Pavarotti once said, “one of the nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever we are doing and devout our attention to eating.”  Well over the course of a week dedicated to Extraordinary Italian Taste I was able to devout plenty of attention to not only eating authentic Italian food […]