13 food-related excesses in a provocative and irreverent exhibits featuring artists from around the world.
At the Crociera dell’ Ospedale Vecchio Via D’Azeglio – Oltretorrente
Info at http://www.cibus.it/cibusinfabula/“
New York e Milano.
Conosco bene queste due città e ritengo che una cosa le accomuni: lo stress.
Quindi andare in una palestra è meta d’obbligo sia per rilassare la mente che per beneficiare il fisico. Trovo che a Milano la piu’ newyorkese sia GetFIT (www.getfit.it)
un network di palestre con 12 sedi, da quelle di Vico, Piacenza e Ravizza, perfettamente attrezzate, ricche di piscine, saune e steamrooms, fino a quelle ‘express’ come Galvani, ideale per un workout ‘mordi e fuggi’, stile ‘broker di Wall Street’.
Prerogativa di GetFIT sono le numerose classi LesMills
studiate per allenare la forza, sviluppare agilità e bruciare grasso. Prevedono allenamenti yoga, tai chi e pilates, con esercizi che aumentano flessibilità, lasciando una sensazione di equilibrio, calma, armonia e benessere generale.
Un vero newyorkese non rinuncia al bagel, panino-ciambella di tradizione ebraica. È coperto da cereali, noci, semi di sesamo o papavero e tradizionalmente farcito con salmone affumicato, crema di formaggio, pomodoro, capperi e cipolla.
Ottimi quelli di California Bakery (Via Larga 19), Bagel Company (Piazza XXIV Maggio 1/8), Vintage Bakery (Viale Stelvio 39) e del minuscolo Ofelé (Via Savona 2).
Non a caso si chiama Big Apple, l’hamburger più classico (carne di manzo, pomodoro, cetriolo, insalata e bacon) servito da New York Meneghina (Via Melchiorre Gioia, 35) 
ristorante-loft dove un enorme graffiti unisce Lady Liberty alla Madonnina. Il menu è l’ incontro di due culture diverse, la tradizione americana e la creatività italiana, come il Burger Parmigiana, con tataki di melanzane e grana padano. Delicious!
Cosa più NY di un NY cheesecake? Da Vanilla Bakery (Via San Siro 2), Biancolatte (Via
Turati 30), Viole di Liquirizia (Via Madonnina 10) e That’s Bakery (V. Vigevano 41). A NY il drink per antonomasia è il cosmopolitan. A Milano Sushi B (Via Fiori Chiari 1A) lo prepara con gin, limone, triple sec, melograno e fumo al lemongrass. Altro classico è il Moscow mule nato nel 1941 al Chatham Hotel di New York, a base di vodka, ginger beer e succo di lime e riproposto al Moscow mule (Via Teodosio 60)
Serata al cinema? Purtroppo anche a Milano sussite la pessima consuetudine di doppiare i film. Nessun americano vuole ascoltare Meryl Streep con la voce di un’altra!
Per fortuna la catena UCI e la rassegna Sound&Motion proiettano versioni originali sottotitolate in italiano.
Cosa manca?
Ma certo, il mitico fried chicken! Corey McCathern, nativo del Kentucky e trapiantato a New York, ha aperto il coloratissimo Corey’s Soul Chicken (Via Paolo Sarpi 53),
dove cucina le ricette della nonna, come la potato salad, gli immancabili fagioli in salsa barbeque, la crostata alla zucca pumpkin pie e, naturalmente, il suo famoso pollo
fritto, vero trionfo di sapore e croccantezza.
The gigantic Rome’s Night of Museums
is back on Saturday, May 21, 2016:
Museums and cultural spaces will open to the public at night and hosting many events including art shows, music, dance, theatre, cinema, readings, guided tourPaying the symbolic 1 euro ticket you can visit the museum with exhibitions hosted, and watch performances of music, theater and dance program.
Here the museums involved:
MUSEUMS CAPITOLINI, MONTEMARTINI, MACRO, MACRO TESTACCIO, ARA PACIS MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF ROME – BRASCHI PALACE, MUSEUM, ROME IN TRASTEVERE, TRAJAN MARKETS – MUSEUM OF THE IMPERIAL FORUMS, MUSEUMS, VILLA TORLONIA, PALACE OF EXHIBITIONS, STABLES QUIRINALE, AND THE WISDOM UNIVERSITY OF ROME
For the program and a complete list of participating hotels: www.museiincomuneroma.it
Opening hours 8.00 pm to 2.00 am
Ph +39 060608
What could be better than a coffee served with all the rules and perhaps
accompanied by a Viennese dessert?
Here is my top list
Hawelka Famous Buchten, vanilla cupcake.
Central Splendid but touristy
Sperl marbles and fine mirrors 800. Frequented by the locals
Mozart cake biscuit, pistachio cream, chocolate mousse
Landtmann establieshed 125 years ago. Anyone important has been here,
from Freud to Lady Gaga
Milan, exactly in the spot that a Leonardo‘s drawing described as an ideal center of the plant in the city, it was reopened to the public the impressive underground church of Santo Sepolcro. Here it was built a copy of the alleged “tomb of Christ”, was brought here the land of Jerusalem after the First Crusade.
Here Saint Carlo Borromeo came to pray.
Milan returns to show its history and its beauty.
See the 360 video
https://youtu.be/JVPVqssdO6c
It’s called “Food & Drink Sensorial Cooking Seminar” .
Four (or six, for the luckier ones) days at the Agriturismo Podere Santo Stefano,Tuscany. In the middle of a breathtaking landscape, located in the heart of the Maremma, the italian sommelier Diana Zerilli among other Chefs, will hosts a guided seminar that includes: cooking lessons, tasting of the prepared plates, combination food & drink, Maremma’s extravirgin olive oil tasting, guided tour of the wine cellar and the oil mill in addition to Dinner with special menu combined with oil tasting.
The lessons, who’s topics are Tuscany cuisine
Hand made pasta, Game, and Middle age cuisine, will take place from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 a.m. – lunch break – than from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. 
At the end of the course you will receive a participation certificate
and the recipes of the different prepared plates.
This is the perfect place to spend a relaxing holiday,
nearby very interesting and cultural places.
Daily fee: 380 € ( includes accommodation, international breakfast buffet, cooking lessons, wine tasting, welcome dinner, certificate.) 
Daily fee without seminar participation: 150 € ( includes accommodation, international breakfast buffet, wine tasting). Minimum participants : 4 persons. Payment: 50% at registration, 50% on the 1st seminar day.
May 6/8, June 24/26, July 16/18, Aug 12/14, Sept 23/25
.For information, dates and registrations: zerillisommelier@gmail.com.
Ph + 39 345.38.91.151
After Fifteen years of planning and construction,
Düsseldorf has completed an extraordinary collective undertaking.
On February 20th, 2016 the City and its Mayor Thomas Geisel, will celebrate the opening of the Wehrhahnline, a new metro link that will run beneath the city centre, over a distance of 3.4 kilometres boasting six stations collaboratively designed by artists and architects.
20th 2016 at 12 pm, Station Heinrich-Heine-Allee
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 has been awarded to Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children right’s campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.
Malala rose to fame after Taliban militants shot her at close range in the head for speaking out against the Islamic extremists and demanding education for girls.
Satyarthi has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the exploitation of children for financial gain.
Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said the joint prize was symbolic because it was important for “a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.
Highlights of the 3 days event include:
Save the Children’s Peace Prize Party [in Norwegian] outside the Nobel Peace Center.
Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo City Hall.
Torchlight parade and The Nobel Banquet at the Grand Hotel
Oslo 9,10,11 of December 2014
Great time to visit Oslo, celebrate PEACE, enjoy the magnificent Grand Hotel a superb symbol of a first-class hospitality with tradition, atmosphere and style.
And this is me …right on the famous Grand Hotel balcony, where the Nobel Recipient waves to the crowd.
LOOOVE good movies , love good food, love Venice!
Here my article in ZesterDaily.com
http://zesterdaily.com/cooking/eat-learn-mingle-venice-film-festival/
Astrup Fearnley
A wonderful collection of modern and contemporary art.
Astrup Fearnley Museum Photo@Cesare Zucca
Designed by Renzo Piano, is inspired by the elements that surround it, the steel cables resemble the masts of boats, the use of wood brings us back into the forests, the silver-gray facade looks like a is a prelude to a winter storm.
Astrup Fearnley Photo@Cesare Zucca
Nobel Peace Center.
Interactive museum celebrating the annual Nobel Peace Prize, which rewards the dialogue and cooperation to a safer world. It was awarded to some legendary champions of peace, as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa.
Nobel Price Center Photo@Cesare Zucca
Munch Museum and National Gallery
Emotional appointment with the iconic “Scream” by Edvard Munch. The artist painted four copies. One is the National Gallery that hosts exhibitions of contemporary art and the other reigns at the Much Museum. Not to be missed.
Edvard Munch “The Scream”
Saturday, July 4 at 9:00 am, in the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia will be inaugurated the Hall of Winged Horses, a precious Etruscan jewel,
symbol of the city and evocative reminder of past and present.
The winged horses will be on display in a new exhibition that brings them back to the origins, in the room that welcomed them after the discovery and is now again ready to celebrate its beauty.
For info and directions check
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Tarquinia
DISCOVER POLAND AND ITS MAGNIFICENT CITIES! Milan, EXPO 2015 
It will be a great occasion to get closer to Poland through a series of events held within the exhibition hall, the area in front and inside the city area. In the Poland Pavilion, you will find interactive installations and video themes, broken down by regions, creating an interesting virtual journey of the country: the Malopolska region, with 14 UNESCO sites, the magnificent city of Krakow, 
the Podlasie region, an area of wilderness, great traditions, multiculturalism and numerous paths for cycling; the Lower Silesia region from the rich and varied landscape with ancient cities, prestigious spas and the city of Wrocław, which in 2016 will be the European Capital of Culture;In addition to that you will discover cities of the Baltic Sea, amber; the capital Warsaw, UNESCO World Heritage town, exuberant, lively and full of life, with a cultural offer so rich that it boasts 28 theaters, 35 museums and 60 art galleries;
Finally Lublin, hosting the early famous Carnival of Acrobats. During the week it will be also presented the Greenvelo Project, the longest cycle path in Poland that crosses five regions of the territory east of the country. One of the attractions of the Pavilion is its magical garden. The winning design relates to one of Poland’s top agricultural exports – apples. Piotr Musiałowski, leading the architectural team, during the conceptualization of the Pavilion, sought to create a symbolic maze, with a magical garden as its focal point – a Polish orchard, full of apple trees. The hidden garden becomes a resting place on the other side of the mirror. An apple orchard reflected in infinite space is clearly associated with the Polish agriculture
Ohhhh I forgot about polish food ! Poland offers a culinary paradise that deserves to be discover and tastefully experimented!
Check my article in Zester Daily
http://zesterdaily.com/world/italys-cinque-terre-5-lands-5-secrets-grand-finale/
From my article in Vanity Fair Italy …the amazing Christmas Windows in New York . Here the link. Check the gallery, add a ‘like” (thanks!) and Merry Christmas!
http://www.vanityfair.it/viaggi-traveller/notizie-viaggio/news/14/12/15/vetrine-new-york-natale-2014
I LOVE TO TRAVEL!
VILNIUS , the beautiful capital of Lithuania. published in Vanity Fair/Traveller ….
Where to go, what to see, where to eat, where to sleep
check it out
http://www.vanityfair.it/viaggi-traveller/viaggi-mondo/reportage/14/12/12/vilnius-lituania-cose-da-fare
I Found an exquisite hotel in Santo Stefano Di Sessanio, Abruzzo, Italy
its name is Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, a smattering of hotel rooms spread throughout a preserved medieval village nestled in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
The local farms have ancient Mediterranean varieties of spelt, lentils, and garbanzo beans growing on the rolling hills in much the same way they did over 3,000 years ago. Recipes going back generations are used in the hotel’s kitchen to serve up traditional Abbruzzese dishes in the private dining room. 
A stay here is an experience like no other. From the artisanal cheeses to the handmade soaps to the local tailors, this hotel encompasses everything the slow movement has come to represent.
nontouristytourist.com 