Necessity is the mother of all invention, as they say, and so it was that Napoleon Bonaparte’s swiss chef Dunand, cooked up the bizarre combination of chicken, eggs and crayfish that would take on the name Chicken Marengo. It all happened after the battle of Marengo (south of Turin), in 1800, when Napoleon routed the [...]
Barolo is a powerful dry red wine from the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. It has a long and illustrious tradition, taking its name from the small town of Barolo (founded, probably, by the Celtic tribes that inhabited the Italian peninsula from Rimini Northwards, before the Roman expansion). Local statutes, dating back as far as [...]
This is a Piedmontese variant on the simple risotto cooked up and down Italy. Its variation comes in the addition of the red Barolo wine (risotto is usually cooked with white wine), which takes its name from the medieval town of Barolo, in the province of Cuneo. Barolo is known to Italian wine enthusiasts as [...]
