A long working week-end

Well, working, yes, but you know, when you work for a food company and they put you in charge of organizing their events, well, work is more like fun!
First, Friday night I welcome in Milan a fellow German blogger, Matthias, who's gonna cover the German market for San Lorenzo. Then on Saturday morning we drove to Quistello, near Mantova, to eat the astonishing Ristorante Ambasciata (a full set of picture here) for this events where we invite random people from the internet to come and eat and drink with us!
Then, from there, we drove to Imperia, where San Lorenzo head-quarters are, spent the Sunday on the sea front (well, I spent it mainly in my bedroom sleeping and waking just to fetch food! Matthias went around, or so he says!) and then Monday at the San Lorenzo offices and the at the San Lorenzo warehouse (a full set of pictures here!). Then back to Milan...
In the mean while, we hit a nice good restaurant, in Imperia (pictures here): a bit too expensive, but good...

But you know, that's working! And I'm dedicated to it!!!
Ah, so exhausting!!! ;-)

Opportunities

For my work with San Lorenzo I have, among other stuff, to organize events, both in Italy and England. Should I express the happiness that surround me since I have to do this kind of job, or is a given??? :-D
For the next week-end, the last of June, we are launching a new monthly event: Il Vino Lo Portiamo Noi (we bring the wine)!
We give to 10 lucky drawn people the possibility to eat in a Michelin starred restaurant with a special tasting menu matched with the wines we produce. The lunch, or dinner, is completely free, and altogether we will give you the opportunity to visit the kitchen, the cellar and speak with the chef, asking him all the question you have in mind! A special day to remember!!!
This month, friday 29th, we are attending a lunch to the astonishingly good, well known and wonderfully positioned Don Alfonso 1890, near Naples and facing the island of Capri! Not only the food, but even the setting will be outstanding!
So, if you are interested, why not try to push your luck and enter the competition??? The enrolments will close tonight at midnight, CET (Central European Time) and the lucky picked by the Fortune goddess will be announced!
Hurry! I'll keep my finger crossed for you!

P.S. We offer the lunch, but transportation and accommodation are at your expense.

Disclaimer: this post is about the company I work for. They do not pay me to write this on my blog, but I thought you could be interested as I think this is a wonderful opportunity for everybody.

Milano: let's meet

For anyone who would like to come, tomorrow night I will be at NordEst, a funky bar in Milan, for a reading by an Italian author, Gian Luca Favetto.
He will read extracts form his book "L'Italia, provincia del Giro - Storie di eroi, strade e inutili fughe".
I will be there, from 9pm... If you would like to meet, I will be the one with the camera, taking pictures of everything!

In the open

I've been thinking about this post for a few months.
I was fighting with myself for the way I was going to write it, how many and which informations I was going to put in it, what "impact" it would have (as I have some kind of "impact" on anything outside my little shiny room from which I'm writing this! AH!AH!AH!), how many insults I will receive...
As few of you know, I was (and I would like to stress on the past sense) in the catering business. I'm not any more. Why?
Well, the first answer to this would spontaneously be: "mind your own business!", but as I'm writing this on my blog it would sound a bit hypocritical! (hey, I wrote the last word perfectly right all by myself!!! And that was a difficult one!)
I didn't want any more to be part of it, but the matter is not simple. As I wasn't the only person involved, and the other person is going on with the business, I don't want to get a legal charge for what I might say! So that's as far as I'm going on the catering matter!
Any way, that's not the story I wanna tell!
Two days after I went "public" with my decision I was offered with a job!
I wrote to Antonio, whom I had known through my blog, months back, and for whom I was writing recipes, to change everything and cut away the name of my former catering company, and just leave my name.
He asked me what I wanted to do from then.
Well, that was the major problem! It wasn't that I hadn't given a thought to this, but I had no real strategic plan! I was too relieved to get free of a suffocating situation, that I hadn't really thought of anything...
So I wrote him my ideas... He cut everything short and he gave me the opportunity, if I was willing to take it, to become San Lorenzo Country blogger for England.
Well, what do you think my answer was???
:-)
And next week I'm heading to London for my first """"""business trip""""""!!!

Well, why am I writing all this?
Self-promotion, primarily... :-)
To assure you that my "integrity" (:-DDDDDDD, sorry, I can't stop laughing!!! I'm so funny!!!) as a food blogger is well kept and safe: I won't do any advertising on this blog, if not related to my personal life...
Because I'm a self-centred person (but well, you know, I have my own blog, so that was established more then one year and half ago when I published the first post...)...
Because I like what I do and I wanted to share it...
Because I have few passions, one of it is good food, and I like to share it...
Because you don't want to know about tv series (possibly stupid and American) or books or movies or cross-stitching or cats, right??? ;-) (Well, about the last one I'm managing to do something too ;-D)
Because I have no recipe pending, and I'm not really into cooking lately (still with flu, but on drugs, many drugs!)...
Because I want, from now on, everything in the open (for more, check the backstage!), everything being as much spontaneous as possible, everything clear...

And I'm ready for that! Are you?

Every finger in a row is pointing at me [...]
Everyday I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Everyday I crucify myself
And my [blog] is sick of being in chains...

P.S. Sorry for little quote that nobody will understand, but she's coming... She's just few days away... And I'm the most thrilled person in the world!!! :-)

Check it out!

Let's go check out my first attemp with my new camera: head over to San Lorenzo's kitchen!!!