Tag Archives: Valle d’Aosta

Out of season.

Posted on April 15, 2015 by

We visit them from December to Easter and from June to August. In the meantime, mountain villages slip out of the back of our minds, into a limbo where we rarely, if ever, venture. What happens up there, when we’re … Continue reading →

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Food for the road: beer-marinated rabbit and Kuroda potatoes

Posted on November 1, 2014 by

A few weeks ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for … Continue reading →

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Food for the road: rabbit legs and Vitelotte potatoes

Posted on October 29, 2014 by

A few days ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for … Continue reading →

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Food for the road: Maluns, Graubünden style

Posted on October 22, 2014 by

A few days ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for quite … Continue reading →

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Back to the roots: the return of agriculture in the Alps

Posted on October 19, 2014 by

“We decided to grow potatoes because potatoes were the staple that fuelled the Alps’ demographic boom”, explains Federico, a hand gesture encircling the tiny field, no longer than half a football field, stretching on front of us. With hindsight, finding … Continue reading →

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The world from above – Northwestern Italy

Posted on September 11, 2014 by

  Italy, as I never stop telling my colleagues, is not only made of islands, tomato sauce and tarantella, like the UK is not just made of tiny cottages, clotted cream and old ladies saying “jolly good” at every possible occasion. … Continue reading →

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