The blog of San Lorenzo

You favourite food blogger, aka me ;), will be part of an amazing experience this Sunday in London!

Teamed with gorgeous Julia of A slice of Cherry Pie, we’ll cook together a 3 course meal for 4 for The food 2.0 Project: Nom, Nom, Nom, with a menu that we simply called “Where England meets Italy”, based on fresh, seasonal English ingredients pared with Italian food or preparations!

Altogether with 24 other participants, all excited about it, and determined to have load of fun cooking all together!

You will here more and more about it in the upcoming days!

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You are sure asking yousrself why on hearth I haven’t yet went deeper on the subjects I just throw at you last week! Well, you are perfectly right, but, even if I’m actually living in Milan, the London craziness for Christmas Party was actually able to reach me, book me and make me crazy too! Not that I have 6 Christmas party in a row, but I have to say that I had to let down at least two invites! Which is nothing compare to people that go to Christmas party EVERY night from the 1st to the 24th December!

Anyway, tonight there is, I have to say, the one that looks absolutely the most stylish!

Tonight I will be more then honoured to represent San Lorenzo at the Telegraph Weekend Christmas Dinks 2007.

And as last spring, San Lorenzo logo was near Google logo, and we are still giggling about, this time, San Lorenzo Italian fine food is near Veuve Clicquot and Moët Hennessy.

And San Lorenzo has provided Pomegranate Catering with the food for the cocktail!

And as if that is not enough for today, our Moscato d’Asti was featured in a post on The Guardian blog Word of Mouth!

Well, you see? December in London can be really overwhelming!

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I’m trying to remerge form just the middle of an intense London week!
London is already very intense by itself, but if you add up two San Lorenzo Christmas dinner in a row followed by an holiday weekend made of food, theatre (actually what has been defined by every Newspaper as “The hottest play in town!”) and tours around the city (still to come!), well, you can imagine why I’ve decided to write all about it in more then one post! And even why this is just an introduction, revealing nothing more then the facts! Uh, and add to all that, the in this web 2.0 era, where everybody is on facebook and we all love facebook, you spend several hours a day looking up for new friends, catching up with old friends and poking in general! By the way: have you joined San Lorenzo Group on Facebook???
Chronologically:
5th December 2007: launch of the new San Lorenzo web campaign, called, for the moment (and now you’ll understand why for the moment!) DSUGISLP! The most difficult acronym in the world just to say Desperately Seeking User Generated Ideas for San Lorenzo, Please! Soon more about it!
6th December 2007: as I said before, we enjoyed celebrate Christmas with the Guild of Food Writers! A delightful evening, chatting about risotto, Panettone, cheese… Soon more about it!
And then from the 7th, my holiday, but I will send you somewhere else (coming soon there too!!!) if you really feel the need to know about it!

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San Lorenzo is very pleased to announce that this year, for their annual Christmas Dinner, the members of the Guild of Food Writers will taste and enjoy San Lorenzo’s good food, with a nice Cheese Fondue, a superb Risotto with Castelmagno, a nice salad with Goose Breast Fillets seasoned in Olive Oil, and, obviously, Panettone! And drinking fine wines all the way down too: Franciacorta, Chianti Classico, Morellino di Scansano and Moscato d’Asti.

Soon some picture insight!

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Oh yes, yesterday night the 18 people that participate to the San Lorenzo presents tasting had a little taste of Christmas!

We enjoyed an appetizers galore, with:

- Black Ligurian Olives in Brine “Taggiasca Cultivar”, “Mmh, so little and so tasty!!!”

- Chilli Peppers with Anchovies and Capers in Olive Oil, “Mmh, this are so good!”

- Grilled Artichokes in Olive Oil, “Uh, I love artichokes!”

- Organic Sun-Dried Tomatoes in Extra-virgin Olive Oil, “Mmh, so meaty!!!”

- Pecorino in Olive Oil, “Strong, good!”

On the table there where widely available to anyone:
- Crutin Cheese with Truffles, “Uh, this is SO good, so truffly!”
- Castelmagno D.O.P.
- Parmigiano Reggiano d.o.c., matured 36 months
- Testun al Barolo, ” Try this with the Franciacorta: it’s amazing!”
- Pork salami with Black Truffle, “The truffle taste is so good!”

And then arrived the Salad with grapes, apples and Goose Breast Fillets seasoned in Olive Oil and the Castelmagno Risotto, made with our Organic Carnaroli Rice.

And then the dessert galore:
- Panettone, served with Orange Zabaione (I actually witnessed people eating three slices in a row!)
- Crumbly Italian nougat
- Dark Chocolate Truffles
- Crumby little Italian nougat, covered in Chocolate

And we swallow all this with:

- Prosecco di Valdobbiadene d.o.c.

- Franciacorta d.o.c.g.

- Champagne Grande Réserve Rosé, “It’s pink, it’s pink: we MUST have it!”

- Moscato d’Asti d.o.c.g. 2006

I realize that comments all starts with uh or mmh, but it’s what actually went on in that room: I couldn’t help it! I mean, we helped it providing food and wine!!!

Every time you take a mouthful of any San Lorenzo products, the first thing that come out from your mouth is “Mmmh!”!

Soon a ful set of picture here!

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I do not yet have a picture to upload (left cable in Italy!) to show the smiling faces, but I can assure we were smiling!!!

Despite the fact that we were actually 13 on the table (major bad luck for Italians), but I realized it only half way through the dinner (so I didn’t panic, and anyway the table was actually set for 14, so it was ok!), the night went actually very well!!!

We tasted 5 cheeses form the San Lorenzo selection:

- Bagoss, matched with Italian Chestnut Honey

- Castelmagno, with Italian Forest Honey

- Bra duro, with Italian Linden Honey

- Parmigiano Reggiano Extra aged 36 months, with Italian Acacia Honey

- Testun al Barolo, by itself, as it’s matured in wine and it impossible to match it!

The wines (as usually a great hit!!!):

Franciacorta d.o.c., brut millesimato 2003

Gavi di Gavi d.o.c.g. 2006

Barbera del Monferrato vivace d.o.c. 2006

Nebbiolo d’Alba d.o.c. 2005

Moscato d’Asti d.o.c.g. 2006

And of course all this wouldn’t be possible without the people that gently came to our night!

Many thanks to Francesca, Mariel, Victor, Antonio, Riccardo (his impressions), Annemarie (her impressions), Ben, Howard, Chris (his impressions), Ben, Virginie and Armelle! You are our agent out there: go and spread the voice that our cheese and wine (and the rest of our products!) are the best you can find!!!

Here the whole set of pictures!

Do you want to come to next tasting night? Of course! So get an invite!

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London, we are back soon, with more San Lorenzo products!

Wednesday night, at the Osteria dell’Arancio, we’ll explore a part of the vast realm around cheese!

We’ll taste them, match them with honey, and then eat an entire meal based on cheese and honey!

I still have 3 places left: someone would like to come???

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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!

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We did it! The first London tasting was a success: everybody enjoyed the rice, everybody enjoyed the company, everybody enjoyed the wine.

Soon a full report,in words and in pictures!

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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?

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