The Gourmand Traveller

FM and the city of Faenza.

I am so excited to share with all of you my latest italian food adventure.

But before I do, I would like to quickly apologize to all my readers for these two past months of absence. It has been slightly crazy around here, with christmas, studies and some traveling. I am now back with lots of new ideas I cannot wait to share with you. There will be some changes in the…

Red Brick: Bologna’s new meat temple

RED BRICK

  Carnivores… Bologna’s grill house just opened!

Red brick opened up its red door a couple of weeks ago, and has already managed to find its footing.

The place has rightly been defined as the “temple of grilled meat”, but I can tell you it is much more. Located on via Frassinago, just a few steps away from beautiful Porta Saragozza, it sells cosiness and gastronomic quality at the same…

The Healthiest Lunch

I am very excited to share with you the easiest hummus recipe of all time.

During my years at university in England I noticed everyone seemed to have a star food to go with during the more stressful or not so stressful periods of the year. For some it was cereal, for others it was mac and cheese.  I didn’t really have one until I tried hummus. Hummus is just the best thing.…

Sunday afternoon in Cesenatico Fish Fair

  A couple of weeks ago I dreamt I went to port town and a fish fair.

Bologna has been cold and miserable for the past weeks. Lucky for me I have spent most of this time in Madrid which is very cold to but has a lot of sun. However not everything is great as I missed Cesenatico’s annual Fish Fair. I had a spy there who took the most unbelievable pictures I just could not keep from you.

Cesenati…

October and November, the months of food fairs. Two weeks ago I went to Dovadola’s Truffles fair and market, and it was delicious. Truffles fairsand food fairs in general are one of the things I love most about this country. Not only you get a chance to buy the best ingredients, but also you get to talk to the people who actually produce them (or scavenge them in this case). You get to savour…

  Mortadella

Mortadellais a very big deal in Bologna. To be honest I have never liked it specially. It consists of a huge cold cut (28cm in diameter) made of pork meat and fat, mixed with spices, black pepper grains, pistachios and myrtle berries, all wrapped together and cooked. Its production dates back to the middle ages, and has been regulated by a specific academy since the XIV century. The…

A couple of years ago I spent a year living in Paris. It was probably one of the best years of my life and where I discovered my love for vintage stores and marches aux pouces.  It all started  in the autumn when I was working as a baby sitter for an amazing Belgian actress who happened to  live in Le Marais.This neighbourhood soon became my favourite part of the city… with its trendy…

Dinner with la famiglia

   About a month ago or so we had some brief but very important visitors.

One of the best things of living abroad  is that wherever you are,  you always have people coming over to stay and  get the opportunity to show off all your amazing discoveries throughout the city, which of course  everyone will findfascinating and exotic. The same goes for when you are back home…

 VEGETARIAN BRUNCH

On my last post I mentioned Estravagario, the coolest vegetarian restaurant, and the place to have the perfect brunch on a Saturday morning. I am not a vegetarian and I would have never thought I would enjoy a vegetarian meal so much.

I was raised to love meat, thinking that somehow a meal without some kind of meat/ fish was not complete. I then moved to London for university…

  AUTUMN

A couple of weeks ago I told you about joining forces with two other amazing bloggers Audrey @ Ciao Bologna! and Sarah from Bologna with love.

The first topic we agreed to write about is Autumn which seems to be everyone’s favourite season. There are a million things I would like to say, and another million I would like to do. Here are my top 4 things to do in this fresh and sunny…

On British food

Yesterday I made the most amazing pumpkin and apple soup I have ever had in my entire life. AgainI am getting ahead of myself…here is how it all came to life.

I woke up to a fresh breeze sweeping through the open windows of my bedroom, trying to get to me through the sheets of my bed. The cold season is finally approaching, yet the sun is still shining in Bologna, making for…

 ROBOT: Electronic festival Bologna

  Bologna seems to be the place to be in at the moment. In addition to becoming one of the most popular gastronomic destinations in Italy and worldwide, it has a lot going on outside it’s kitchens and restaurants.

ROBOT, is an annual festival dedicated to Electronic music and arts. For five days every October, the whole city dances to electronic music, and…

Gluten-free Pizza

  After an intense morning of studying at the library in a very rainy Bologna city day, I got home soaked and hungry. I wanted comfort food which was delicious  but light enough to allow me to keep going until the evening. I wanted a quick fix, which was healthy and appetizing… and a little bit piquant.

I looked up on my pinned recipes board on pinterest(best invention ever) and…

  MILES

Another weekend in Bologna, full of culinary fun!

On weekends the center of Bologna becomes a pedestrian area and one can enjoy walking around its main avenue, which is partially taken over by cafés terraces and all sorts of shows. After a couple of hours exploring this carousel and some shopping, we went for what we thought was going to be a quick lunch.

Miles, a small shop specializing…

 WELL DONE

A couple of weeks ago I got a wonderful surprise visit by two great friends from Berlin . Kathi and Mattias were on a bike tour  from Berlin to Rome, crossing Germany, the Alps, stopping by at lake Garda and going through Bologna and Tuscany. I met Kathi years ago whilst I was living in Paris, we both lived at the very same residence @ the Cité Universitaire.  I remember she was always…

BOBu: Bologna Bloggers Unite

Last spring I went to an aperitivoat Mambo Bar  and met some wonderful bloggers also blogging about Bologna. It was great to be able to share our experiences and meet people of the blogosphere, a world which still is kind of new to me. When they sent me an email asking whether I wanted to take part in a common project and unite our forces , I did not doubt it for a…