If there were ever a food tour that sounded like heaven, it would be the new Bologna gelato tour. This tour includes a guided walk under the city’s historic porticoes and takes you to three artisanal gelato shops for an epic afternoon of gelato tasting. You’ll get to taste multiple flavors, learn about the history…
I may have learned how to pick out good gelato from “fake” gelato while on a food tour in Rome, but I learned the art of tasting gelati and discovering new Italian gelato flavors while spending a summer in Bologna. Thankfully, Italian portions are small compared to the melon-sized scoops of ice cream you get…
Thought I’d re-post a summer favorite. It’s been so hot I found myself searching my own blog to make this sweet refreshing yummy Nutella goodness … a hazelnut gelato recipe with step-by-step photo instructions. Walking through the streets of Rome, it’s easy to get lost. The roads twist and turn through moments of history and…
There’s nothing I love more than coffee, except maybe a biscotti with my coffee. Well … then there is coffee gelato with biscotti. Biscotti is actually short for “biscotti di Prato” meaning a twice-baked cake from the Italian city of Prato. While I’ve never been to Prato, if their claim to fame is biscotti and…
This vanilla lavender gelato recipe is inspired by a trip to France. While in Paris, I pretty much walked every single neighborhood from my little B&B off of Boulevard de Grenelle to the Louvre to Latin Quarter. Because I felt there was so much to see in my own self-guided walking tour, most of my…