Italian Cooking, Wine and Travel Links

Italian Food

• www.eat-vancouver.com The Food, Cooking & Culinary Travel Festival in Vancouver, B.C.
• www.cucinait.com/World/Home_We.asp - La Cucina Italiana magazine for monthly recipes.
• www.epicurious.com - Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazine--a huge site.
• www.italiana.co.uk - articles on Italian recipe ingredients from artichokes to wine, tips for Italian cooking, and Italian lifestyle around food.
• www.gourmetguides.com - Bargain cookbooks for professionals, serious cooks and collectors.
• www.pastalabella.com - A wealth of pasta information from a pasta maker.
• www.parmigiano-reggiano.it The Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese consortium gives you a wealth of information in Italian and English! You'll become an expert!

• www.winespectator.com - Wine Spectator's humungous site, full of wine communities & information!
• www.italianwineshq.com - categorized resource directory for everything about Italian wines.
• www.winecountry.it - a great resource for Italian wines.
• www.nataliemaclean.com - Nat Decants FREE Wine E-Newsletter Wine picks, articles and humor from Natalie MacLean, named the World's Best Drink Writer at the World Food Media Awards in Australia. Natalie is also the author of Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass .
  

Italian and Related Travel

• www.initaly.com - The best Italian travel site I've found, loaded with info!
• www.journeywoman.com - A truly great site for women travellers! A warm, friendly community of adventurous friends. Lots of tips, stories, women friendly tours and places.
• www.trenitalia.com The Italian railway system, "Ferrovia dello Stato" site, where you can even type in your departure place and time and destination, and it will give you your own schedule!
• www.italiantourism.com The Italian government tourist web site. Latest events. Good hotel search engine. Gastronomic museums. A good place to start with lots of general tips on travel.
• www.rentvillas.com THE source for over 1400 villas and apartments all over Italy, over 800 in Tuscany. A great search engine asks you to enter what you want, where, when, cost and presto--you have a list of ones that suit you. Quick and easy!
• www.it-schools.com A long list of Italian language schools in many cities all through Italy and links to their individual sites. One stop shopping!
• www.aboutflorence.com/ - interesting and useful information about one of the most beautiful city in the world, Florence.
• www.romeguide.it - an amazing site with an exhaustive list of events, places, and people to enjoy in Rome.
• www.italiansrus.com - guide to Italy & Italian culture
• www.wineanddinebcnews.ca "What's Happening in BC" Events Calendar; and massive Wine & Food pairing resource.
• www.divinacucina.com/code/florence.html Florence for foodies.
• www.langheroero.it/ Piedmont regional tourist information.
• www.bestofsicily.com/ A guide to Sicilian travel and all things Sicilian.
• http://goitaly.about.com/ A great site chock full of informative articles and resources for tourists for all of Italy.
• www.selfgrowth.com A great site with lots of articles and resources on personal development includes an excellent section on travel & self growth. As we travel, we learn about ourselves, other people, other ways of life.