A Nebbiolo wine tasting at Cantina Torino shows what it means to be a wine person. I always thought I was more of a "beer person" than a wine person. Perhaps coming of age in the U.S. at a time when artisan beer was (and is) sky-rocketing combined with prohibitive…

What do you get when you pair a small town with deep traditions that are tied to local food and wine? A sagra. The towns and cities of Piemonte hold sagre, or local festivals, at least a dozen times a year. Sagre keep things exciting, entice the tourists, and encourage mingling…

A reaction (not quite knee-jerk) to an eavesdropped comment about one of my favorite cities. I travel by train quite a lot through Italy. They're always full of people talking, and I discovered I can easily tune out conversation even if they're loud teenagers, because it's in Italian. I realized…

The Entire Pizza is about Italian food, my enthusiastic introduction to Italian wines, travel, and Italian culture. Why is it called "The Entire Pizza?" It represents the meaning of truly understanding a culture through its food, doing as that tired axiom "when in Rome..." suggests you do.