We could hear the Pescheria, Catania’s open-air fish market before we could see it. The sound of fishmongers shouting their best price to undercut …
Italian food and wine to tempt your tastebuds
Love food and wine? So do I! These are some of my favourite Italian destinations for food and wine including Rome, Bologna, Tuscany and Sicily. Read on for Italian food guides, food tours and winery visits that will tempt your tastebuds. From mountains to islands and everything inbetween...

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It was back to school for me this September and not just any old school. I went to the coolest school ever – the Carpigiani Gelato University, …
The cool, calm, quiet of the Consoli kitchen is in complete contrast to the clamour of Catania’s colourful market. We explored the market as part of …
Catania’s cafes and bars are the perfect place to indulge in a cup of coffee and a cannolo when the sightseeing begins to take its toll. There are …
Alta Badia in Italy presents skiers with a delicious dilemma. Each season the culinary festival ‘A Taste for Skiing’ dishes up 130 km of beautifully …
Of the three epithets bestowed upon Bologna; La Dotta – The Learned, La Rossa – The Red and La Grassa – The Fat, it was the latter, fatter moniker …
Tuscan cuisine is food for the soul; intense fresh flavours from a few choice ingredients which have been freshly picked or pulled from the earth. …
Coffee is an essential part of everyday life in Italy, akin to an art-form and nigh on a religion. There’s a myriad of Italian coffee on the menu …
The Travelbunny Regular readers will know that a good food tour is one of my favourite ways to explore a city. Rome was no exception. A culinary …
It would be wrong to visit Tuscany’s wine region of Chianti in Italy without stopping off at a vineyard or two to sample Chianti Classico, the area’s …