Traveling tasting
A dip in the flavors
Travel through taste, Discovering new unusual flavors, New fragrances. Traveling tasting It is Victoria and Riccardo's blog, where they tell us about their travels driven by love for food.
Welcome to Easy Travel hosting! Victoria and Riccardo, Tell us a bit about how you met and how the idea of your blog was born, Traveling tasting.
Hello and thank you very much for this interview, We are very pleased!
We met by teenagers and we call ourselves a "vintage couple" because they are well now 14 years that we endure ourselves!
Traveling tasting is a project born several years ago, When we started traveling together pushed by the love we share for food, i drink, local products and unusual flavors.
The secret dream officially came to life about a year ago in full lockdown thanks to an online school for travel bloggers, which gave us the courage to say “Ok, let's do it! Now or never!”.
The name Viaggiare Degustando is inspired by two ideas in particular. The first to the fact that on our food and wine tours we love to taste local specialties (whatever they are, even the apparently disgusting ones!).
The second is the concept that through food you can embark on a real journey, because while tasting a dish, even at home or in a restaurant in your city, you can be catapulted to another place in the world.
We even think that food can make us travel through time, awakening with each tasting the memory of a specific flavor or a specific culinary experience that has remained in our hearts.
Tell us about the first trip you took together and the last one!
To tell you about our first trip together we have to make a real leap in time! It was the distant 2009 and we landed in Sicily, one of the Italian regions with a spectacularly rich and varied culinary tradition.
We chose the seaside village of Cefalù as our base, very romantic and full of life, and from there we visited Palermo, other villages on the north coast, went trekking and spent a whole day on a boat.
Needless to say, we had our fill of cannoli, bread and panelle, brioche with ice cream, trousers, arancini…In short, we came back with a few extra kilos!
If we don't count the trips between one ordinance and another, our last trip together was the tour between Alto Adige and Veneto during the summer 2020.
When organizing the trip we don't hide the fact that we were a little demoralized by the situation and initially we conceived it more as a makeshift than as a real holiday.
As it took shape and we chose the stages, only, we fell back in love with Italy as a summer destination!
Our food tour on the road touched the Wine Route in Alto Adige, The Dolomites, Lake Braies, a historic Italian brewery, a path in the rock. Moving to Veneto we slept in a wine barrel in the Prosecco Hills, visited wineries, spent three wonderful days between Venice and the islands of the lagoon.
And here too in terms of typical dishes and drinks, as you can imagine, we certainly didn't hold back!
Now let's talk about food and drinks. A dish each that you experienced while traveling and that left you speechless, and a wine or cocktail that you would have liked to drink by the liter!
Io, Riccardo, I tasted the best dish during our winter trip to Paris.
Still cold and with eyes full of that splendid view that you can only admire from the Chimera Gallery of Notre Dame, we entered a welcoming yet anonymous bistro, where a skilled chef transformed simple eggs into a warm and fluffy omelette. Which warmed my body, the soul…going straight to the heart!
In terms of drinks, the memory of the wine we drank in Alsace remained indelible, in a cellar of a characteristic village on the Route des Vins with wooden barrels as tables. This is where my passion for wine was born!
For me, Victoria, the tastiest dish experienced while traveling still remains a specialty of the island of Crete today: a chicken breast stewed in the oven and immersed in a cream of 5 types of processed cheese…I, who go crazy for cheese, still have my mouth watering just thinking about it!
Among the drinks I also choose a wine, actually two, because I am an incurable wine lover.
The first is a Gewürztraminer tasted on the cellar terrace, with a view of the fabulous Termeno valley, in South Tyrol. The second is a red and is perhaps the most famous Italian wine of all time, which I savored sip after sip in a wine shop in Milan. Today it is at the top of my personal ranking and I would really drink rivers of it!
What do you do to make your travels eco-friendly?
Let's be honest, in the past we have not always been very attentive to the green part of our travels. In recent years, Instead, we are trying to make our way of traveling increasingly ecological and sustainable.
For example, we prefer to enjoy itineraries on foot rather than take public transport, whenever possible. If instead we organize trekking in the middle of nature and bring a packed lunch, let's be careful not to leave anything in our wake, we use water bottles, we respect the environment and the ecosystem that surrounds us.
We are also paying more and more attention to choosing eco-friendly accommodation and venues, who for example prefer recycled materials (such as napkins or toilet paper made of recycled paper, completely biodegradable take away boxes), who adopt plastic-free policies or who supply themselves with zero km products.
Structures that choose to be more sustainable and limit waste, avoiding for example the daily change of towels (unless strictly necessary) or by setting timers for lights and air conditioning.
We know we are not eco-travelers 100% but we are trying to do our best to give a greener twist to our travels!
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