![]() The day will also include a Slow Food seminar and tour of the unique university before returning to our villa for a little rest and relaxation. Finally, we’ll be invited to sample from the university’s coveted wine bank, a centuries-old cellar filled with vintages so rare they have to be kept in a vault! Here, we’ll turn to Kelly as she guides us through a hands-on cooking class-the ingredients and recipe inspired by all the discoveries we’ve made so far. We’ll let the espresso propel us onward until we wind up at the University of Pollenzo, an institution of gastronomic science dedicated to the Slow Food movement and Kelly’s alma mater. After sampling fine salami and sausage unique to the region, we’ll wander the market before cozying up for coffee and sweets at Bra’s historic pasticciera. We’ll start the morning by meeting a legendary butcher in Bra, a village that epitomizes the rural Slow Food phenomenon. Meet winemakers and artisans whose generations-old techniques reflect the region’s authentic heritage. ![]() If you are fascinated by how landscape and history shape a bottle of local Barolo or Barbaresco, you’ll relish every minute. If you love fine wines and exquisite regional cuisine, this trip is for you. Traveling back to Piedmont is a dream come true for Kelly, and we’re honored to go along for the ride. After years of learning and living like an Italian, she returned home to California to cook for Alice Waters at her legendary restaurant, Chez Panisse in Berkeley, before joining her family’s Scribe Winery in Sonoma. After learning to cook and celebrate food with her family of California farmers, her passion for gastronomy eventually led her to live and study in Piedmont, where she received a Master’s Degree at the Slow Food University in Pollenzo. ![]() Our tour guide is Scribe’s own Kelly Mariani. The people of Piedmont know the region’s food is about responsibility and reverence for the landscape, and for life itself. It’s part of the ‘Slow Food’ culture born in the region and threaded eloquently through all of northern Italy. In Piedmont, it’s not uncommon for every dish, and each precious ingredient like truffles, sheep milk’s cheese or sparkling wine, to have its own story and local heritage. We will contact you if and as space becomes available. ![]()
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