My recent story about truffle hunting made me nostalgic for
the trip that included that wonderful day;
our week of culinary delights in Umbria, Italy. The seeds of this trip started long ago, when
I met my soon-to-be Aussie husband and was trying to figure out where we could
go out for dates. Through strange
co-incidence, we had each signed up with the same new cooking school before we
even met, and on our third date (at a wine tasting event) discovered that fact
when we happened upon the chef instructor.
Cooking classes? The perfect
date! It must have been a great idea, as
we took a lot of classes. When we
heard that the chef instructor was planning culinary trips to Europe, we couldn’t
sign up fast enough.
And that is how we
wound-up in a hilltop villa on the outskirts of Perugia on a fine fall week in
October.
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| The view from our bedroom |
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| Pretty nice, huh? |
During the height of truffle
season, I may add. We took daily forays
to local markets, to olive oil pressings, to artisanal meat curing houses. And oh yes there was the truffle hunting.
They had even arranged to have a real, live
Italian chef come to the villa and teach us how to make pasta. Pretty much the perfect trip, if you ask me.
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| How to make pasta the right way |
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