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Poggio Verde Hosts Photo Shoot for New Cookbook

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The photoshoot team and Italian Friends of TCF supporters ready two fresh Branzino (Seabass) for the photoshoot.

Recent months have brought photo and video crews to Poggio Verde to photograph some beautiful Italian food for a lovely cookbook currently under development.

The cookbook will support The Italian Friends of The Citizens Foundation,   a highly-regarded organization that is building schools in Pakistan.

The cookbook is a collection of prized recipes from some of the supporters of the organization who happen to be excellent cooks. The book will be sold online and at events and markets in Milan beginning in May.

The photos here are of a recent video and photo shoot.

Here are the beautiful finished products of our 3 days of arduous work!

 

Preparing the Cream Cheese and Caviar for photographing
Cream Cheese and Caviar Aperitif will be served with crackers

 

Preparing the dough for the Cherry Strudel
Here’s Cicchi’s Cherry Strudel an hour later…. scrumptious!

November menù and St. Martin’s Day at Giovanna Passeri Agriturismo

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In Italian agricultural tradition, November is conventionally associated with St. Martin’s Day and the end of the farming working year. Giovanna Passeri Agriturismo e Scuola di Cucina can’t of course miss the chance to celebrate with a typical autumnal menù! Here’s just a taste of what you may enjoy, accompanied by good wine.

Cornmeal mush crouton with mustard cabbage salad

Pumpkin dumplings with butter and sage

Roasted goose on potato and juniper cream

Martin Sec pears in red wine with Moscato semifreddo

But also:

Pumpkin flan with parmesan sauce and fry(fritturina)

Goose meat sauce ravioli or leek and potato velvet sauce

Roasted goose with braised savoy cabbage or salty tart with radicchio and casera cheese

Seasonal fresh and dried fruit

  

For you to feel the atmosphere  surrounding  St. Martin’s Day, it’s a pleasure to report this poem entitled “San Martino”,  by the famous Italian writer Giosuè Carducci

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Christmas is Coming…

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Gather your family or a group of like-minded friends and consider adding “Trip to Northern Italy” to your Christmas list! Focus on a certain theme – like golf, hiking or walking, cooking, dining, wine-tasting, painting, photography, art & culture, cycling, shopping – or arrange for a custom trip that includes a bit of several different activities. Day trips to famous wine-growing regions (fabulous lunch included) or maybe a 2-hour train ride into the Swiss Alps for a stunning panoramic view and a lovely lunch? Or maybe to the elegant villas of Lake Como?

Contact us at poggioverdevilla@gmail.com for more information. Or join our mailing list and “like” our Facebook Page for updates.

Behind the Church at Montevecchia

The view of one of the stations of the cross behind the church at Montevecchia, 15 minutes from Poggio Verde.

Ready for Guests

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September and October have been busy months; we’ve gotten our Homeaway site established, set up a Facebook Page, spiffed up the website and received our first official guests.

Two groups of friends from Nashville, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Colorado Springs, Chattanooga and Kansas reported having a wonderful time not only in and around the villa itself but also visiting Lake Como (including Villa d’Este), Piani d’Erna, Milan, Lugano and Montevecchio. They tried some of the local restaurants and had good reports there, too. Each couple combined their visits to Poggio Verde with visits to other lovely spots like Florence, Venice, Cinque Terre, Bolzano, Tuscany, Rome, London and Paris. Planes, trains and automobiles!

These photos were taken at Poggio Verde and Montevecchia, the wonderful tiny community with the church up on a ridge about 15 minutes from Poggio Verde:

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