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Nancy Silverton is a world-renowned chef, baker, author, and co-owner of Mozza Restaurant Group which operates restaurants such as Pizzeria Mozza, Osteria Mozza, Chi Spacca, and Mozza2Go. Prior to founding Mozza, Nancy owned and operated La Brea Bakery and Campanile in Los Angeles after many years working under the likes of Wolfgang Puck, Michael McCarty, and other world-class chefs.

In 2014, she won the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Chef Award, one of the most prestigious accolades a chef can receive.

We sat down with Nancy at her home in Los Angeles to learn all about her inspiring and unconventional journey to becoming one of the premier chefs in all of the world.

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This week welcomes Elisa Nardi. We discuss the wines and wine estates of Tuscany, Italy, the typical grapes of the region, and the styles and methods found there. The value and gems of local family-owned and operated wineries, ideal pairings of food and ambiance, and wine tour musts when in Tuscany. All this and more on MOI!

Volterra was my very first hill town in Tuscany, Italy.

And I fell in love with it.

Beautiful churches.

Roman ruins.

Old. town walls.

Narrow, cobblestoned lanes.

Stunning views.

Delicious food.

While not off the main tourist track, Volterra is a not as popular as nearby San Gimignano.

Tune in to find out about some of the best things to do, see and experience in the gorgeous Tuscan hill town of Volterra.

Want to chat more about this fabulous destination?

Send me an email at lynne@wanderyourway.com


In this episode:

2:23: Placing Volterra on the map

4:00: Churches

8:03: Palazzo dei Priori / Piazza dei Priori

9:39: Etruscan Ruins / Parco Archeologico Enrico Fiumi / Museo etrusco "Mario Guarnacci"

11:50: Medici Fortress

12:40: Roman Ruins

13:52: Alabaster

16:38: Walking

18:59: Places to stay

19:53: Places to eat

21:39: Getting to Volterra

22:25: Wrapping it up


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7 Amazing Things To Do in the Tuscan Hill Town of Volterra Italy

Volterra tourism

Roman ruins

Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro

Alabaster  Ecomuseum

Hotel La Locanda

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Antico Borgo di Tignano (where I stayed near Volterra)

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"The old cypress trees along the ancient noble roads stand tall as if to welcome you into their home"  -  Sheryl Ness, Love in a Tuscan Kitchen

Welcome to Episode #68,

This week I share Part 2 of my conversation with Author Sheryl Ness about life in Tuscany and the writing of her book Love in a Tuscan Kitchen: Savouring Life Through the Romance, Recipes and Traditions of Italy.

Today we talk about the traditions at the Italian table, book authors, writing, the writing process, language studies and more. 

I must add this book is for someone who enjoys the sensual pleasures of life.  It is a tale that talks to the heart of taking risks, weighing up the possibilities and then leaping into the great unknown.  I love that not only is this a memoir, but a cookbook too.  I think these days this is one of my favourite genres in writing where both parts weave seamlessly as the journey evolves.

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"Everything around me gave me a feeling that I was at home, from the foods to the people and the unique landscape.  I was falling in love"  -  Sheryl Ness, Love in a Tuscan Kitchen

Welcome to Episode #67,

Today I share a wonderful conversation with Sheryl Ness about her time in Tuscany and her memoir, Love in a Tuscan Kitchen: Savouring Life Through the Romance, Recipes and Traditions of Italy. 

I think Sheryl’s story is very special because she had a connection to Italy without understanding exactly why.  But she followed the thread and the inkling, and something very interesting happened.  She found the one.  And it didn’t just happen in a linear or obvious way.  Her path lead her from one thing to the next, then it happened rather last minute, quite randomly, over a piece of chocolate cake!  

There is so much I love about this book…Taking risks and following the heart’s needle, and really trusting the bigger picture, that something very beautiful wants to be revealed.  In this case, it turned into a great Tuscan adventure and one that continues to delight and surprise you.

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This spring I visited Bomarzo and the #gardenofmonsters or #sacrobosco in #italy. Today's podcast is a tour of these eccentric gardens in Lazio just and an hour north of Rome. A great day trip or pit stop on your way up north to Tuscany or down south to Rome/Naples.

Take a rest and enjoy these unique gardens built in the 16th century that are one-of-a-kind. More information on my blog www.travelwithwendy.net and soon on my YouTube channel.

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1:00 Welcome to the Sacro Bosco Gardens
1:30 What to expect
2:06 Outlandish design
2:31 Other artist inspiration
3:22 How to get there?
3:37 Tickets and trails
4:12 Grab a bite to eat
4:30 Discovering the town of Bomarzo

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Annette Joseph lives half the year in La Fortezza, a medieval fortress in the countryside of northern Tuscany. She loves entertaining and offers creative retreats and workshops teaching styling, photography, painting and cooking. And did I mention shopping? 

Annette's book about the renovation journey of La Fortezza is covered in her book, "Italy is My Boyfriend." Her new book about the retreats she holds there, "My Italian Guestbook," is a fun-centric book about  life-changing experiences, crazy parties and great food. You feel like you're there and realize you really want to be there! 

If you ever dreamed of harvesting Italian grapes for wine, picnicking in olive groves, dining on local streets, painting al fresco, learning to cook like an Italian or enjoying movies under the stars, this is a must listen! 

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Celebrating 11 years of marriage and here is how it all started. 

Episode 60 of the Cork & Taylor Wine Podcast and what an honor we have our first Count on the C&T Podcast and even in the Podcast Studio! Sebastiano Capponi joins us in the flesh all the way from Villa Calcinaia in lovely Tuscany that his family has owned since 1524. We taste threw three awesome wines of his and even chat about Hannibal Lecturer. Chianti Chianti Chianti and Black Roosters!

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Hear about our very first cycling trip along the Via Francigena, which is actually a very ancient pilgrimage route that goes through one of the most beautiful parts of Italy, 300 km from Siena, Tuscany to Rome, complete with lots of adventures and misadventures along the way.

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In the last episode of Season 1, Julie and Dani leave Rome on a train bound for new adventures in Orvieto. Small talk – and a little argument – with fellow passengers adds more local Italian flair to their Italian journey.

In our roundtable, Elisa shares a pair of idioms, including the Italian equivalent of Julie’s favorite – “When in Rome…” – and another about the Mona Lisa. In our premium version, we get a stack of useful phrases for train travel in Italy.

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After visiting the Colosseum, Julie and Dani go shopping at an outdoor market in Rome, then shop for shoes at a boutique. They also have a bit of fun chatting with “ragazzi” dressed as gladiators.

In our roundtable, Elisa shares an idiom that tries to explain how your mustache can make you feel superior. In our premium version, we also learn all about shopping in Italy, from do’s and don’t’s to how and when to bargain for deals. 

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Julie and Dani go to a pharmacy and learn about all natural Italian cosmetics to help soothe skin, repel mosquitos and much more. 

Later on, Elisa teaches us everything we need to know about disgusting things… namely, the word for “disgusting” in Italian: “schifo”! 

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The Do’s and Don’t’s of eating in Italy! In this very special episode of Postcards from Italy, Julie and Dani enjoy a lively dinner discussion with their new friends that includes a hilarious idiom about why old chickens are preferable to young chicks and a strong warning about drinking cappuccini after breakfast.

But things really heat up in our roundtable, where Elisa shares her insider knowledge as a born-and-raised Italian to tell us the top 37 food rules to obey while traveling in Italy. 

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Cuciniamo! Let’s cook! Julie and Dani join a cooking class in Rome and prepare classic Roman recipes that illustrate the Italian expression “avere l’acquolina in bocca,” to have water in one’s mouth.

In our roundtable, Elisa gives us a long list of Italian verbs to use in the kitchen. We also learn that drinking like a sponge is not considered a positive thing in Italy, so drink responsibly!

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Julie and Dani shop for recipe ingredients with a local chef in Campo de’Fiori, where they learn that you must never touch another man’s fruit and that good wine makes good blood.

Later, Elisa tells us about the more sinister history of the famous Roman food market piazza Campo de’Fiori, and we learn a fun (and often-used) way to contract the phrase “va bene.”

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Julie and Dani eat dinner in a charming restaurant across the Tiber River in Trastevere, where they use a few colorful Italian idioms and are first “hungry as a wolf” and then “full as an egg.” Dani learns about some more (weird) food rules in Italy!

In the roundtable, Elisa and Erin savor three classic Roman recipes and Elisa takes us step-by-step through the grammatical structure of the deceivingly simple-sounding word “farcela.”

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