Some days ago on the New York Times blog appeared an interesting article on how to go organic in easy ways… And yesterday Ed Levine, prominent blogger and food journalist in New york, posted his reply.
Very interesting stuff!
What do you think about it?
In a sunny, warm and almost summer London, Thursday night took place the first San Lorenzo Presents: tasting, followed by a dinner, of San Lorenzo’s products. The night was focused on rice and two of the best Piedmont wines, Barolo and Barbaresco.
The crowd we were able to assemble was quite heterogeneous: from the founder of the Girl Geek Dinners, Sarah Blow, to her Italian counterpart, Amanda Lorenzani; from Steve Lamb to one of the two Trusted Places founders, Walid Al Saqqaf, to restaurant critic Andy Hayler; from 4 of the major Uk food bloggers, The Passionate Cook, Cook Sister, Londonelicious (her report!) and Aidan the Trainee Chef (his report!), to other bloggers, like Bru (who wrote something about it even on Trusped Places Blog); from one of the top Flickr contributors, Mernas, to a chef, Celia Brooks Brown… And some others, like some wonderful Irish people, Aoife and Dermott, like Emma, Trusted Places newsletter editor, like some Italian friends…
The products that most interested everybody was, of course, Venere rice! It’s black, it’s fragrant, it’s different! Check it out!
The wines were, as usually, a huge success! They are so good that you can’t help it: you’re gonna love them!
Thanks to everybody for coming and making the night a success! Here you can check out some pics!
Here in London is a gorgeous day! Sunny, warm, so warm I’m writing this from a coffee place just outside the British Museum, seating outside (something I’ve never imagined even in my wildest dream! I’m even sleeveless!!!).
Why am I here? Two main reasons:
- Yesterday night I attended to the 15th Girl Geek Dinner, organizied by Sarah Blow and Nicole Mathison, two wonderful and nice ladies I was so pleased to see again! And they love San Lorenzo’s wines! In fact we gave away few bottles of our best wines, and some ended up in the ends of two gorgeous peopla, as Walid, from Trusted Places, a trusted friend of San Lorenzo, running many competitions with us, and Maz Hardey, a social scientist from York, writing a PhD thesis about digital social networking… The night was amazing, as usually!
- On the 13th we are gonna start tasting nights in London! Tomorrow will be the big day! So be ready for a full report!
From your beloved blogger, live from one of the most amazing city in the world (and I’m not saying that just to make you envy me, no no! ;-D), going to have a tandoori somewhere… Or dim sum… Or thai, why not?
From the 13th September we’ll begin a series of tasting nghts and dinner at the Osteria dell’Arancio.
Some fine and to noch products will wait for you to be tasted, followed by a superb dinner made by Peppe De Gregorio, the Osteria chef!
Your stew is too salty and you don’t know what to do?
Your furnitures are full of glass stains and you don’t know what to do?
Your garden is full of weed and you don’t know what to do?
In this article from the Guardian will tell you those and more! And now, sorry, but I have to go and clean a hideous stain on my marble floor…
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England and Italy look, from an outsider point of view, so apart, not only geographically, but even culturally and sociologically.
But are we so distant and different? Let’s pick the food point of view…
Many years ago (before 2000!), while I was spending a lot of time in England, writing my PhD thesis, staying with my husband, enjoying 20° C even in August, England and Italy seemed two different world, completely… Italian restaurants back then were awful and almost nobody knew what an Italian dish really was or tasted… And in Italy we thought that British cuisine meant only greasy fish&chips, tea and baked beans…
Now, 7 years later, it’s a completely different story! British cuisine have evolved immensely and the culinary renaissance is at its highest peak! And this goes altogether with the discovery of a true Italian cuisine.
The sight of a decadent Victoria sponge filled with a nice drolling jam, something that years ago make my face grimace, it’s now appealing. And only because my taste has evolved in those years (thankfully!!!), but even because English reinvented themselves. Thanks to young and hippie chefs, to a real interest in what there is in their plates and to a peculiar attraction for organic food, England has discovered the real taste of good food!
Altogether, the blossoming of food festivals helped the nation to realize the amazing variety of English products! (Tomorrow an overview on overcoming events)
And with a increasing interest in goof food, will Italian food stand the challenge?
Well, my point of view is obvious, but yours?
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