Barbara Goldfield

Winding Vines of the Amalfi Coast

[[slideshow=60] di seguito in italiano The Amalfi Coast, south of the bay of Naples, is one of the most beautiful, famous and well-known parts of Italy: it welcomes visitors with a feast of light and scents: the only condition necessary to enjoy its spectacular landscape is to carefully follow the roads and paths as they […]

Chef-Talk at Vico Equense – May 24 – 26 2010

  Festa di Vico at Vico Equense is where the great chefs gather to cook, compare recipes and compete in a relaxed and festive atmosphere.    In its 4th year, this is an unrivaled culinary event organized by Gennaro Esposito, the Pavarotti of chefs and owner of the restaurant Torre del Saracino on the Amalfi Coast. If […]

STRUFOLI- Campania’s Christmas Dessert

[slideshow=54] Recipe for 15 people: 500 gr Flour 3 Eggs plus 3 egg yolks 100 gr Sugar 40 gr Butter Pinch of Powdered yeast Pinch of Salt 1 Small Glass of Rum or Sambuca 300 gr Honey Candied Fruit Grated Rind of 1/2 Lemon Peanut Oil for frying On a pastry board make a well […]

Cooking in a Norman Castle with Chef Antonio Ruggiero

[slideshow=58] The area around present-day Vairano has been inhabited since prehistoric times: first by the Oscans, the Etruscans and then the Samnites.  In 290 B.C. the territory was conquered by the Romans. After the fall of the Empire the region was overrun by a series of barbarian tribes. The Longobards lived here in the 6th […]

An American Chef Learns from a Granny in the Sannio – by Carlos Crsuco

[slideshow=56] Chef Carlos Crusco wanted to sign up for a cooking-class with Eco-chef Berardino Lombardo at Terre di Conca. Berardino wasn’t teaching at the time so I asked whether he would be interested in trying something different, completely different, like cooking with an Italian grandmother – in her home. He jumped at the idea. Following […]

Regio Tratturo – The Cattle Super-Highway

[slideshow=55] (based on this original article) Wikipedia defines transhumance as the “seasonal movement of people with their livestock, typically to higher pastures in summer and to lower valleys in winter”. Until fairly recently, cattle-driving along the Apennine mountain paths or tratturi was a tradition that had been going on long before Romulus or Remus met […]

THE CHEESE-WHEEL TUMBLING CONTEST at PONTELANDOLFO

Click here for the original article by Miti Vigliero How the Ruzzola, or Tumbling, Came to be the Official Form of Entertainment at Carnival in Pontelandolfo. Once upon a time in the Middle Ages, the wealthy Baron of Pontelandolfo had a  passion for gambling and would find any pretext for a good game as long […]