Seems like everybody's opening a restaurant this month in Seattle, and everybody who's already got a restaurant is promoting a harvest dinner. You want a real harvest dinner? Try this: a seven-course game, truffle & mushroom feast.
What's the big deal, you might ask? Well, here's the translation:
- crostini with mushroom & game pâté
- egg & parmesan flan with black truffles
- pasta with more truffles
- risotto with porcini
- roast suckling pig with forest mushrooms
- wild strawberry tart
- coffee with homemade liqueurs.
It's being held at the restaurant of a working farm, the Borgo del Riso, in the fertile Po River Valley 20 miles outside Bologna. Might be too late to get there this season, unless you don't mind shelling out two grand in last-minute airfares, but the rooms are only $65 a night once you arrive. And there's a lot to see nearby: the gorgeous "art cities" of Emilia-Romagna, Parmigiano dairies, Prosciutto farms, and one of the world's largest radio telescopes.
Some of those sights below, from a trip with the Italian Tourism Promotion Council back in 2006.
Me, I'm actually going to this one in Lazio, a cooking school called Casa Gregorio, an hour outside of Rome, next week. Promise to keep you posted.
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| Wheel of Parmigiano cheese |
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| Baptistry ceiling in Bologna |
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