Food Travel
How Parma ham is made
Ham, salt and air. That is all it takes to make Parma ham, or Prosciutto di Parma to give it its proper name. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Calling it easy though would be a huge disservice to the skill and mastery of the staff at Ruliano S.P.A. in Riano di Langhirano, near Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna province […]
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Welcome to Rome Twilight Tour Review – Walks of Italy
I have to admit that, in the days leading up to it, I wasn’t particularly looking forward to this evening walking tour – Rome Twilight City Stroll and Gelato Tasting with Walks of Italy. For starters, it was the first day of our tour of Italy and we were going to have to get up at 3:45am […]
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Venice Food Tour Review – Walks of Italy
As regular readers will be aware, at Saucepan Kids we love food and travel so what better during our tour of Italy than a food tour of Venice? Venice was the final stop on our tour and is renowned for its food so we teamed up with Walks of Italy to learn more about the […]
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Best of Venice and Doge’s Palace Tour Review – City Wonders
Debbie and I adore Venice. We had visited only two years before during Carnevale (when fancy dress and masks are the order of the day) for a weekend break without the children and fell in love with the place. So we’d been wanting to come back with the kids ever since. When we planned our […]
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Dark Rome Colosseum Tour Review – City Wonders
It was an early start on our third day in Rome on our Tour of Italy as we woke at 7.30 so we could take the 25 minute walk to the Colosseum for our Dark Rome tour with City Wonders. We would have loved to have taken the underground tour which includes access beneath the […]
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Best of Florence – City Wonders Tour Review
It was with mild trepidation that we arrived at 8:45 in the morning at the Piazza San Marco for our City Wonders Best of Florence walking tour. Not the kind of trepidation you might feel going to a job interview or the dentist – it was a holiday after all – but the worry that […]
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Piadinas at Piada Cupida in Ravenna, Italy
I’ll admit I’d not even heard of the local Ravenna dish, piadina, before our recent food tour of Italy. Even then it was only because the Ravenna tourist board suggested we should visit Piada Cupida and try the local delicacy whilst we were there. Ravenna is in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy and only […]
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How Balsamic Vinegar is Made
We buy and use quite a lot of balsamic vinegar. We buy the standard vinegar you find on supermarket shelves and use it for salad dressings and for cooking. We’ve always liked the flavour it adds to food and Anna has been cutely calling it “binegar” since she was very small. So when we were on […]
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Slip away with the family to Sirmione, Lake Garda
Lake Garda is one of northern Italy’s most popular holiday destinations. It also happens to be Italy’s largest freshwater lake. Having spent nearly a week there with my three children (aged 11, 11 and 13), I now understand why so many families flock there every year. It’s beautiful and so easy to get to. Lake Garda […]
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