Discover the best gourmet food experiences across Italy. From food tours and wine tastings to traditional cooking classes, this section features everything you need to explore Italy’s rich culinary heritage. Whether you’re interested in Parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar, pasta-making, or fine dining, browse through our articles to plan your next food adventure in Italy.
The Val d’Orcia — the landscape that surrounds Pienza and gives the cheese its character The Val d’Orcia south of Siena is one of the most distinctive landscapes in Italy — wide clay valleys, rolling hills, isolated farmhouses, rows of cypress trees on ridgelines. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape and the […]
Pecorino di Pienza: The Sheep’s Milk Cheese of the Val d’Orcia Read Post »
Ferrara sits between Bologna and the Po Delta and has its own food identity that belongs fully to neither. It shares the region’s love of fresh egg pasta and aged cured meats, but the Este court’s taste for the theatrical — sweet-and-savory combinations, elaborate pastry casings, spices from the medieval trade routes — produced dishes
Ferrara Food Guide: What to Eat and Where to Find It Read Post »
Le Marche is the region directly south of Emilia-Romagna — less than two hours from Bologna by car or train — and it has one of the most underrated food cultures in Italy. While tourists flock to Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast, Le Marche quietly produces some of the best dishes you have never heard
Le Marche Food: Three Dishes Worth the Trip from Bologna Read Post »
Italy’s ski resorts are better paired with food than those of most Alpine countries — partly because the mountains run through regions with some of the strongest culinary traditions in Europe, and partly because the Italian resort culture has always treated the lunch stop as seriously as the skiing. The three areas below are the
Skiing and Eating in the Italian Alps: Madonna di Campiglio, Bormio and Cortina Read Post »
Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan) guided visit to a cheese day. Emilia Delizia offers detailed Parmigiano Reggiano cheese tours in Modena, Parma and Reggio Emilia. Our tour will begin early in the morning in order to catch as much as possible. Below we tried to reproduce our tour in pictures to give a better idea to
Parmigiano Reggiano Factory Tour Read Post »
Bologna’s reputation as Italy’s food capital is not marketing. The city has real producers, real craft, and a culinary tradition specific enough to have its own dialect names for things — sfoglia for the egg pasta sheet, la grassa for the city itself. If you are spending time here, three experiences stand out as worth
Three Culinary Experiences in Bologna Worth Planning Around Read Post »