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hbanziger
Aug 3, 20204 min read
D + 23: Cold War, Tuna & Marsala
Today's blog will be mostly photos. There was so much going on. A few photos say so much more than many lines of text 7.30 am - we...
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hbanziger
Aug 2, 20202 min read
D + 22: Favignana - Tuna Capital of Italy
Arriving in Trepani, the Erice Mountain at the back Approaching Sicily at 10 am this morning, we were greeted by a bunch of tuna and...
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hbanziger
Jul 2, 20203 min read
D - 9: Wines from Langue d'Oc on Cap Bon
A few weeks ago, I wrote about local grapes in Sicily and Sardinia. Some of them have roots back to the time when Greek and Phoenician...
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hbanziger
Jun 30, 20202 min read
D - 11: Pecorino
It never occurred to me that someone could blend bread and cheese but people in Genoa do so with their Pecorino Focaccia. There are so...
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hbanziger
Jun 28, 20202 min read
D - 13: Are Focaccia and M'Semen from the same Flatbread Family?
Writing for two days about Genoa made me thinking of Focaccia, the town’s famous flat bread. I wondered how many new bakeries had to open...
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hbanziger
Jun 24, 20204 min read
D - 18: The Subaquatic Life of the Mediterranean
We are all looking forward to the delicious seafood we are going to have during our sailing holiday. Buying if directly from the...
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hbanziger
Jun 13, 20203 min read
D - 28: Five Counties and Fresh Water
The English make movies titled 4 Weddings and a Funeral. The Italians name wines for Fresh Water (Dolceacqua) and Five Counties (Cinque...
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hbanziger
Jun 7, 20205 min read
D - 34: Chestnuts - Food for Poor People?
Most people who holiday in Corsica associate the island with beauty, sun, sea, rocks and maybe some rosé. But hardly anybody associates...
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hbanziger
Jun 6, 20204 min read
D - 35: Rosés from Corsica
Expected to hit the maximum of grape varieties yesterday in my blog on Sardinia. But clearly had not done my research. On Corsica, there...
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hbanziger
Jun 5, 20204 min read
D - 36: Wine from Sardinia
If you hoped that only Sicily is hanging on to its historic grapes, wait until we arrive in Sardinia. You may not have heard of...
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hbanziger
Jun 5, 20205 min read
D - 37: Wines in Sicily
Having talked about corks and bottles yesterday, I won’t be able to avoid the topic of wine – as you will discover, the islands and...
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hbanziger
May 26, 20203 min read
D - 46: Liguria - Hilly Seafood Paradise
`In our journey to discover the cuisines of our 2020 sailing we finally arrive in Liguria our place of departure on 11 July. With the...
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hbanziger
May 24, 20204 min read
D - 48: Sicily - Culinary Melting Pot
Today’s blog is about Sicily’s Cuisine. As we have seen in previous blogs, the island was settled by Greek and Phoenicians about three...
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hbanziger
May 23, 20205 min read
D - 49: Bread for the Romans, Low Gluten Pasta for Us
In one of my 2018 blogs I talked about the logistics of feeding ancient Rome and reached the conclusion that it needed about 365’000 tons...
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hbanziger
May 21, 20204 min read
D - 51: How Climate Changed Tunisia's Cuisine
After yesterday’s foray to the Green Sahara, it is time to return to Berber Culture and the Tunisian Cuisine. We will return to the...
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hbanziger
May 18, 20204 min read
D-54: Corsica's Cuisine
One of life’s pleasure is looking at menus and recipe books and guessing how people discovered all the interesting foods they describe....
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hbanziger
May 16, 20204 min read
D - 56: Olives, Wines, Dates and Figs - the Remaking of the Mediterranean Vegetation
When writing my blog yesterday, I was thinking of the three fig trees in Chantrou. Every year, we impatiently wait for the figs to get...
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hbanziger
Jul 3, 20192 min read
C - 21: Dalmatia in Seven Dishes
Food is such a wonderful expression of culture. I do not know of any other cultural achievement that touches so many senses. We can smell...
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hbanziger
Jun 30, 20192 min read
C - 23 : A Fabulous Greek Legacy
Sailing from Montenegro to Croatia will get us close to a Greek legacy which is most enjoyable - Wine - provided you do not consume too...
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hbanziger
Jun 22, 20192 min read
C - 31 : Albanian Cuisine
Hi Everyone - back again with my daily blog on relevant and not so relevant stories and anecdotes for this year's sailing from Corfu to...
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