Staff Trip to Tuscany: La Cucina Povera
One of the places I really wanted to take our staff to was the town Radda in Chianti. It’s one of the small, hilltop villages… Continue reading
Category: Tracy’s Travels
Staff Trip to Tuscany: Wine Tasting in a Thousand Year Old Abbey
Wine tasting can be one of the most helpful ways to improve your understanding of the nuances of wine. When you taste two or more… Continue reading
Staff Trip to Tuscany: Visiting the famous butcher and indulging in everything MEAT
Our chefs were stoked to visit the internationally renowned butcher Dario Cecchini from Panzano in Chianti at his butcher shop, Antica Macelleria Cecchini. He’s been… Continue reading
Staff Trip to Tuscany: Is that a Church or a Winery?
A visit to Castello di Volpaia Continue reading
The Traveling Somm Returns to Italy!
After having a baby, opening a restaurant and surviving a pandemic, The Traveling Somm made a trip back to Italy! Continue reading
A Taste of History: The Old Fashioned
Tasting a bit of mining history through an historic whiskey cocktail: The Old Fashioned Continue reading
A break from Traveling to Live High Up in the Mountains
Chef and Sommelier are holing up in the mountains! Continue reading
Rifugi nelle Dolomiti (Huts in the Dolomites)
As I sip a frothy cappuccino on a mountaintop hut, it’s hard to believe that I arrived here from the Adriatic coast of Croatia by… Continue reading
Embracing the Euro Camping Life
European camping challenges our Western expectation of privacy and space Continue reading
Cycling through Slovenia, the ‘Colorado’ of Europe
Slovenia: a beautiful, friendly, fairytale-like country that is a dream for cyclists and feels a lot like home. Continue reading