Italy

EPISODE 98 - HOW TO COOK AND EAT LIKE AN ITALIAN

In this episode of ExtraVirgin Food and Travel, Natascha Mirosch talks with Silvestro Silvestori, owner and director of cooking school...

Silk Handkerchiefs with Basil Pesto from Liguria

NADIA’S MANDILLI DI SAEA CON PESTO SILK HANDKERCHIEFS WITH BASIL PESTO FROM LIGURIA From Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking by Vicky...

Episode 94: Pasta Grannies with Vicky Bennison

All over Italy, in tiny mountain and seaside villages, elderly women are making pasta by hand, as their mothers and grandmothers and...

How I Found My Missing Travel Mojo in Italy & France

I nearly cancelled the whole thing, I really did. Mid-2022 and I'd booked a trip in September to France and Italy and it was causing me...

A Bittersweet Labor of Love

We turn our backs on Sicily’s jagged coastline, with its decaying stone towers and pebble beaches and motor inland, uphill, along roads...

Postcard from Amalfi, Italy

Laura Thayer is living a life most of us could only dream of. An American by birth, Laura is a travel writer based on Italy's Amalfi...

Episode 91: Italy for culture lovers

Hands up who loves Italy? Art, culture, history. They're some of the topics Natascha Mirosch discusses with Dr Kathleen Olive, cultural...

Episode 85: Five Destinations That Changed My Life

LISTEN HERE Have you ever taken a trip that changed your life? ExtraVirgin Food & Travel Podcast host and travel writer Natascha Mirosch...

Are these are the world's most beautiful villages?

According to a recent analysis of instagram and pinterest* these are the world's most beautiful villages. How many have you been to? Do...

Epsiode 82: A Sicilian Food Tour

LISTEN HERE If you listened to epsiode 81, 'The Truth About Those 1-Euro Houses in Italy','in which our guest Rubia Daniels talked about...

Episode 81: The Truth About Those 1 Euro Houses in Italy

LISTEN HERE You've probably seen something about it on the news - Italian towns offering 1 Euro houses for sale. If you were an...

Episode 69: An Italian Cook in Rural Victoria

LISTEN HERE In this episode of Extravirgin, we talk with Italian-born cook and restaurateur Stefano de Pieri about authentic Italian food...

Turning Back Time. Staying in a Medieval Mountain Village in Abruzzo

It’s snowing. Not the kind of little feathery flakes that kiss your face, or tickle the palm of an outstretched hand, but icy crystals...