About chefbikeski
Culinary Director and Owner of Italiaoutdoors Food and Wine. Creator of uniquely personalized tours in Italy. Small groups, owner/expert led, customized to your desires, your budget. We personally design and lead each and every tour ourselves, to deliver the best in personalized service.
One of Italy’s loveliest wine regions, producing luscious red wines, is still very much overlooked by even the most knowledgeable wine tourists. Hidden in the north of Lombardy along the Swiss border, the Valtellina wine region stretches along the river … Continue reading →
I recently held a cooking class on the cuisine of Tuscany at Port Plums in Newburyport, introducing some of the wonderful dishes we enjoy on our private Tuscany tours. We started with a couple of types of bruschetta. Pronounced BRU-sketta … Continue reading →
Posted in antipasti, Travel, Tuscany, Uncategorized, Vegetables
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Tagged Bike and Wine tours, bruschetta, cavolo nero, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, Italian cuisine, Italy hiking trips, Kale, private bike trips, Recipe, Tuscany
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Nestled against the steep rock face of Fennberg mountain lies the small wine village of Margreid. Stately homes of the local nobility as well as quaint old farmhouses line the narrow streets, where today the locals still gather on the … Continue reading →
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized, Wine, Wine Pairings, wine tastings
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Tagged alois lageder, Bike and Wine tours, biodynamic, culinary bike tours, culinary bike trips, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, Italy hiking trips, Northern Italy, private bike trips, Travel, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Wine
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Always on the hunt for new cookbooks to add to my extensive library on Italian cuisine, I was fortunate to have one of the pioneers in the industry visit my Newburyport neighborhood recently. Mary Ann Esposito is one of … Continue reading →
Posted in Cheeses, Gluten Free, Travel, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Veneto
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Tagged cauliflower, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, greens, Italian cuisine, Italian Food, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, mary ann esposito, private bike trips, Travel
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Discovering the distinctive local products of Italy is a unique and intriguing part of any Italiaoutdoors Food and Wine Italy tour, an activity that requires extensive local knowledge. There are countless local varieties of plants that are incorporated into the … Continue reading →
Posted in Braising, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Veneto
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Tagged Bike and Wine tours, broccoli rabe, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, greens, Italian cuisine, Italiaoutdoors, Italy hiking trips, Northern Italy, private bike trips, Recipe, Travel, Tuscany, vegetarian, Veneto
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