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    Wrongheaded Assault on Slow Food

    events in Torino. Other Slow Food emanations include a hotel, various nonprofit foundations, and—in a particularly significant development—a private college. The [URL=http://www.unisg.it/eng/index.php]University of Gastronomic...

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    Best Merlot

    hemisphere; it’s not as grapey and has much more of an earthy flavor to it. Trapiche makes a good merlot (as well as a great Malbec); Michel Torino is also delicious and my favorite is the Monte Lindo Alta Vista merlot.

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    Argentina: Salta, Juyuy, Tilcara

    with a rack rate of US$378 or so. Now that’s the kind of deal we love. The hotel is a renovated “estancia” or estate and has a Spanish style, with Italianate flourishes. The family winery of Michel Torino was established there...

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    La Cumbamba (directions needed) and general recs for visitor

    their website, giordanos.com. The owner Efren Boglio says their stuffed pizza was modeled after the Easter pies of Torino. I’d be very curious to find out the name of the pizzeria on Harlem that also claims priority....

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    Amusing menu gaffes - what's yours? [moved from Boston board]

    ….just put the butter on the side." RS: "Copy?" G: "Sorry" RS: "Copy?…Tea?…mill?…" G: "Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all." RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease bachem Tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh

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    Are there any foods you hated as a child - but grew to love?

    reason, the salad there converted me. After that lunch I couldn’t get enough salad. A home-cooked meal of rabbit stew also converted me to vegetarianism. A move a few months later to Torino (Italy) further adapted my eating...

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    Servers at ethnic eateries ...

    There was an awesome pizzeria across from my apartment in Torino. My friends who came to visit me in Italy still rave about that pizzeria more than any of the fancy places I dragged them to! It was run by an Egyptian family who...

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    Advice on Santa Fe: Cafe Pasqual, Geronimo, The Compound, etc

    to have to order so many plates because the portions were so small. The service was slow, so by the time we got the first round of plates, we were full and didn’t order anymore. 72 West Marcy St,...

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    best pizza in calgary?

    I used to live in Italy and the Italian Supermarket takes me right back to shopping for groceries in Torino... basically being totally, completely ignored while the employees talk in Italian to elderly Italian women about their...

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    Do you travel internationally and, if you do, do you eat street food?

    I am a vegetarian, so I don’t eat meaty street food, restaurant food or home food. But I’ll occasionally eat street food when I’m traveling. I used to live in Torino (Italy), and there definitely isn’t a...

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    What foods have traveled in your carry-on?

    Barcelona to Torino, sat in my cupboard for two years, traveled back to British Columbia (Canada) with me, stayed there for two more years, and is now in my pantry here in Alberta (Canada). I’ve packaged up some sketchy...

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    Why are people so passionate about 'Q and their favorite BBQ Joints?

    , cuz I’d be laughed at then shot. But that’s the style I leaned. Every que I try gets measured against QL’s. Every car I buy gets judged against the ’73 Grand Torino that was my first. Every place gets judged against where I...

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    In which country would you (a Hound & more) like to retire?

    Italy. I visited for two weeks in October, and I am ready to move there! I especially like Sienna and Tuscany. Like I could afford Tuscany. Tuscany reminds me of California. Spent most time in Torino - good food, friendly folks....

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