Comments on: Three Questions with Tania Pascuzzi of Cooking in Calabria Tours

By: Joe Romeo

Joe Romeo — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:03:59 +0000

Fantastico!!….
Like Tania I too am Calabrian-Australian and it’s good to see someone else promoting this great land of ours. The cooking tours are a perfect way to immerse yourself in the local culture. I have been doing tours to Calabria for the last 8 years now and with exception everyone has commented on the unspoilt beauty, the wonderful food and wine and especially the friendliness and welcome of the people.
Bravissima!!!
Joe Romeo
Calabrian Affair Holidays

Thanks so much for coming by, Joe!

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By: Cherrye at My Bella Vita

Cherrye at My Bella Vita — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:02:15 +0000

Great interview as always, Michelle! I look forward to meeting Tania here in Calabria one day soon.

Thanks Cherrye; we need to get to Tropea for a long weekend

.-= Cherrye at My Bella Vita´s last blog ..Travel Tip Tuesday: My Mélange Offers Ways to Enjoy Italy at Home =-.

By: Jo Tedesco

Jo Tedesco — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:51:19 +0000

So which part of Australia are you from? Interesting isn’t it – you meet an Italian and you start – so which part of Italy are you from

My aunt and uncle are thinking of coming to Calabria in Sept 2010 and one of the things I keep saying to them is to get an apartment in Tropea and then wander around. They say they will if I go along with them. I would – except I like to walk during my holidays – so I am off to Corsica or at least to doing the Francigena walk originally from Canterbury to Rome. THis sounds like the perfect holiday for them.
Jo

By: Gil

Gil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:02:06 +0000

Thanks for posting and giving us a mini tour of Calabria! The little round things look like the honey coated fried dough that my Sicilian grandmother used to make. We knew them as “Honey Balls” and the adults called them something like “Pinulatta”. The desert in the middle almost looks like the “Honey Ribbons” that my Neapolitan grandmother used to make. Coated in powdered sugar instead of honey.

By: jen of a2eatwrite

jen of a2eatwrite — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:42:18 +0000

This sounds like a wonderful enterprise. It would be my dream to do something like this! Not run the tours, but attend one. Maybe some day…
.-= jen of a2eatwrite´s last blog ..Tony Bourdain, Alice Waters and that whole Local Food Thing… =-.

By: nyc/caribbean ragazza

nyc/caribbean ragazza — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:17 +0000

Tania’s tours sound wonderful.

Those photos are stunning. Someday I will make to that part of the boot!

Yes, yes you will!!!!

.-= nyc/caribbean ragazza´s last blog ..Gorgeous day – some pics from Gianicolo Hill =-.

By: Leanne in Italy

Leanne in Italy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:14:28 +0000

Hey Scintilla…you and Tania are not the only Australians with Calabrian parents (well dad anyway!!)
What an interesting post Michelle – sounds like she has some fantastic ideas and like her I do hope the Calabrian tourism opens up a little more to the masses (not too much…but a little bit more would be good!)

Exactly Leanne…a little bit more but not too much! Is that too much to ask? Haha

By: Scintilla

Scintilla — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:24:05 +0000

How interesting! It seems that Tania and myself have a lot in common. Australian with Calabrian parents, Positano, Tropea… Like Tania, I have a mother who was a superb and geniune cook and was just thinking yesterday, that I was so lucky to have been brought up enjoying the wonderful cuisine that cooking schools in Italy nowdays teach their international guests. They are dishes that I’ve always taken for granted and prepare for my own family.
Her tours sound wonderful.
Good on ya Tania! If I could write this in Calabrian, I would

I know Tania also does stuff up in the Positano area as well…perhaps you can meet up someday?