by Sheridan | Aug 9, 2015 | Journal
Soft Landing in Lesvos, Greece It’s a hot, still morning when we set off to the little white church tucked in amongst the olive groves down the hill from the village. We turn off the bitumen road and onto a narrow dusty track bordered on both sides by gnarled olive...
by Sheridan | Jul 26, 2015 | Journal
Endless Italian Summer Suddenly, it seems, the whole of Italy is on holidays. The papers are full of stories of transport strikes (Alitalia was on strike on Friday, as were a number of the train and tram services) and protest marches in Rome. Last year there were 2084...
by Sheridan | Jun 28, 2015 | Journal
Meet Stefano Pescarmona: An Agrarian Militant I was in my early 20s when I first fell in love with the Italian landscape. I’ll never forget looking out the window as the train sped through the countryside from Rome to Perugia and I saw patchwork fields of sunflowers,...
by Sheridan | Jun 21, 2015 | Journal
Roberto Flore: At the Frontier of Food Ever heard of Anty Gin? or of casu marzu? The former is a wood ant distillate flavoured with Bulgarian juniper berries and springtime botanicals, while the latter is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese which contains live...
by Sheridan | Jun 14, 2015 | Journal
Casa di Lucia, Lake Como I’m standing at the window of my second floor room at Casa di Lucia B&B in in Lecco, northern Italy. Below me is a formal Italian garden, and if I lean out further and look to the right, I can catch glimpses of Lake Como. Last night, a...
by Sheridan | Jun 7, 2015 | Journal
Spilling the Beans I learnt something surprising about Italian coffee recently. It was to do with the poor quality of Robusta beans used to make the legendary espresso served every morning in bars throughout the country. “Most of the coffee served in Italian...
