Susan & Arnie Travel

If you think that our entire trip to Italy revolves around searching out food and food festivals, well, you would be correct. We sought out “Taste” a three day festival celebrating artisan foods. That describes just about all Italian food, so I guess it would be more accurate to say that this is a three day festival to celebrate artisan food makers willing to pay for a stall. We went to this festival last year and had a great time. This year I thought there was less meat, alcohol and chocolate and more condiments and prepared sauces. That is not to say that we did not eat (or drink) enough.

There was some beautiful prosciutto. It doesn’t get much better than having the meat shaved right there and eating it on fresh Tuscan bread while sipping Tuscan wine.

I did some Paparazzo filming as well as food filming. A big time Italian food writer was at the festival. I was next to him and everyone pulled out their cameras and started shooting. I had no idea who he was but that didn’t stop me from putting my tiny camcorder in his face. I later saw his book prominently displayed.


I did learn one thing; best not to mix alcohol and film making. Filming things went down-hill after we got the wine glasses. Luckily for Arnold, I was not as focused as I should have been when we went into the shopping area. I marked my program with several items that I wanted to buy, then forgot about them. We still did OK with our spoils.

Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/user/alaguar1