The New Gastronomes

A pitch for a script for the new James Bond movie
Opening scene: Bond is at a dairy farm in the Parma area looking for a man known as GiorgioGrano Padano, an evil mastermind who is plotting to industrialize cheesemaking in the area, as well as to take over the world. Bond uncovers a clue that [...]

Obsessive, probably. Reading food blogs has progressively taken up a big chunk of my life (or reduced sleep time). At least two hours a day, and usually in bed before going to sleep. Funny that something I had no interest in 4 months ago has become something I MUST do everyday. [...]

Traveling on “stage”—field trips—is one of the many unique experiences of studying at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. It might be hard to imagine that there could be anything difficult about eating and traveling for study. But it certainly comes with its own set of challenges: namely, obligatory and epic eating. So for all of [...]

A few classmates and myself recently had a chance to take a road trip down to Montalcino located roughly 42 km south of Siena in Tuscany. The impetus to go down had been to take advantage of some free tickets to the Brunello di Montalcino preview of their new releases of Brunello and Rosso di [...]