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Eating to learn about wine, Italian-style

03/06/2016 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

I spent an afternoon this week at Taste of Italy, an event in Geneva that brought in two dozen premium food suppliers from Italy, a kind of matchmaking fair for wholesalers, retailers and the restaurant business. My idea was to learn more about Italian regional products in order to better understand Italian wines. Wine and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: cheese, coffee, cold cuts, confits, dried meat, food, Italy, jam, lard, olive oil

Topping and tailing gooseberries the easy way

26/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Here’s a shortcut a wine grape grower’s wife shared with me, for topping and tailing gooseberries. We use them in jam and pies, both of which I love, but it’s always seemed unfair to me that you first get pricked by the thorns and then you have the tedious job of topping and tailing them. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: freezing, fruit, garden, gooseberries, jam, pie, shortcut, sugar, tip, topping and tailing

Buy those gorgeous Valais apricots NOW!

24/07/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Apricots are on sale in Valais and this weekend is their peak, say pickers and sellers. I’ve been buying them at different places, mainly for eating but I’m trying to convince the household’s jam-maker that our supply is running low. He’s more interested in making raspberry jam but the two together on a table with […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: apricots, fruit, Geneva, geneve, Grone, jam, kids, Lake Geneva, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Recipes, Sierre, Sion, suisse, Switzerland, Valais, Where to buy it

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