Sapori e Saperi Adventures

07/06/2025

Latest News: Tastes & Textile Tours in Italy - https://mailchi.mp/sapori-e-saperi.com/tastes-textiles250608
A very few places left on tours in 2025 | Hanging by a Thread 2026 | Bobbin lace course anyone?

01/06/2025

Celebrating twenty years of artisan tours 🥳 - https://mailchi.mp/sapori-e-saperi.com/tuscanheritage-9299110

Please join me on our anniversary tour AUTUMN IN TUSCANY in November this year!

29/05/2025

CELEBRATING SARDINIA TOUR
We stay at MuMA Hostel, Sant'Antioco because

💚 They practise sustainability.
🚣‍♂️ We see gorgeous sunrises & fishing boats from our bedroom windows.
🥰 Nothing is too much trouble for the staff.

Join us next April at MuMA Hostel for food, wine and festivities
📍 https://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/celebrating-sardinia.html

MuMA Hostel

01/05/2025

Our Celebrating Sardinia tour starts tomorrow. Arriving a day early you get a preview of pleasures to come.

We're going to the Festa di Sant'Antioco, the patron saint of all of Sardinia. This is the Festa of Sant'Efisio, the patron saint of Cagliari.

Photo 1: Ox cart with solid wheels and handwoven traditional carpets
Photo 2: Look at the crowds!
Photo 3: So much colour and exquisite fabrics
Photo 4: Men in sheep's clothing
Photo 5: They're from Sant'Antioco where we're heading tomorrow
Photo 6: Orgosolo women in step (we go here on our Tastes & Textiles: Carpet Weavers of Sardinia tour)
Photo 7: Orgosolo trio (note woman's the golden silk headress)
Photo 8: Barefoot widows
Video: Arrival of Sant'Efisio

29/04/2025

New dates just published for our Art & Science of Gelato course
📆 17–23 August
📆 24–30 August
📆 19–25 October

Learn to create any flavour your imagination can conceive!😋🍧

➡️ More info:

Learn how to make natural Italian gelato in Tuscany on this professional development course. Sapori & Saperi Adventures

26/04/2025

When someone said she didn't want to come on 'the cigar tour', I was shocked and dismayed. Why call a tour that introduces you to the greatest food, art and music of Tuscany, while steering clear of the tourist traps, a 'cigar tour'?

Read the case for the defence here:

Are you ready to be tempted by the vices of the past (and present) while seeing Tuscany through new eyes? If the answer is 'yes', join us on our Tuscan Heritage small group tour in October.

20/04/2025

Climate change! Garmugia, a miracle-working 16th-century soup of Lucca used to cure the body, save the soul and console the poor, combines the last artichokes of winter with the first spring onions, peas, fava beans and asparagus (plus a little minced beef to bump up the protein). I've written a note in my Lucchese cookbook I bought 20 years ago that these ingredients only overlap in May. Not any more 😟

I found all the ingredients at the open air market on 4 April. Not just a week early. A whole month!

31/03/2025

Seasonal eating: wild asparagus risotto 😋

28/03/2025

Meet the talented artisans you'll get to know on our Carpet Weavers of Sardinia tour - https://mailchi.mp/sapori-e-saperi.com/celebsard2505-9298029
Only 3 days left to claim your 5% discount!

15/03/2025

Autunno Autumn Fall are all beautiful in Italy 🇨🇮 - https://mailchi.mp/sapori-e-saperi.com/autumn-tours-250316
Click the link for news about the exciting tours you can book in Tuscany in October and November.

04/03/2025

I was there when Davide Salvetti, President of my village Casabasciana, won one of the six semi-finals of the annual zuppa championship. Bravo Davide 👏

Organised by Slow Food Lucca Compitese Ortilucchesi, the semi-serious competition with a mix of companilismo (everything around my church tower must be best 😉) and a sharing of experience aims to keep local food traditions alive.

Zuppa isn't soup. It's more a thick vegetable stew mixed with bread. It must contain four ingredients: beans, cavolo nero, bread and new extra virgin olive oil. Other ingredients can include any winter vegetable (no zucchini, please) including wild plants.

If you're curious to know more: https://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/blog/slow-food-disfida-della-zuppa-or-soup-tournament

16/02/2025

No one knows when the tenore singing started or where it came from. When I listen I feel transported to somewhere exotic.

During our Carpets of Sardinia tour we're having a private concert with this group.

https://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/tastes--textiles-carpet-weavers-of-sardinia.html