Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Somewhere in Italy

The wife and I were able to spend some quality time in and around Venice. Venice was great, but the first part of the trip in an area around Lago del Garda and Verona was just as good -- if not better. The food was miles ahead of what we found in tourist-trap Venice.


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We stumbled first upon Provenza wines... and spent an hour talking about local wines, olive oil, and grappa and tasting with our host, Lorenzo. That stop led to some very heavy baggage on the way home -- 6 bottles of wine weighs around 4 kilos, by the way. Lorenzo recommended a restaurant in nearby Desenzano del Garda by the name of La Frasca. What a find this place was -- easily the best food of the trip. He specifically recommended the taglilini with a fish from the lake -- fantastic. The pasta in this dish is fresh. Another interesting entré was my main course, a seared steak of horse meat. I'd had horse in Japan, but there it was thin slices served raw. Eating a whole steak is a different story. Horse is a very sweat meat but the flavor is good -- if you can get over eating Mr. Ed.

After lunch, we walked the lake front, wondered out loud about the glowing green water, had some gelato and then we were on our way again. Next stop... Verona!


“Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are.” - English proverb

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