Australian_Gourmet_Traveller_2017

Photography SIMON BAJADA Mitteleuropa meets the Med in the Italian port city of Trieste. JOHN IRVING explores its unique blend o ...

Tr ieste Slovenia Croatia Austria Trieste Venice 142 GOURMET TRAVELLER O ut on a limb in the extreme north-east corner of Italy, ...

PREVIOUS PAGES Left: Yacht Club Adriatico in Trieste, founded in 1903. Right: the entrance to Palazzo del Comune in Piazza dell’ ...

144 GOURMET TRAVELLER country by a fine thread of coastline, hemmed in by Yugoslavia. A poll carried out a few years ago claimed ...

GOURMET TRAVELLER 145 “Corn on the cob in Istrian dialect. We mix it with potatoes and beans and sausage to make a soup, minestr ...

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GOURMET TRAVELLER 147 with the essential accompaniment of crauti, or sauerkraut, and cren, grated horseradish. Not exactly summe ...

148 GOURMET TRAVELLER All this talk of shipping makes me reflect on the comings and goings of people. Trieste has been a magnet ...

Getting there Venice and Ljubljana international airports are both less than two hours’ drive. There are regular flights to Trie ...

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Every road leads to a seaside town, every meal ends with digestivi. KATIE PARLA is warmed by Old World hospitality on a road tri ...

T he hottest place in Italy that sweltering August night was our train carriage. It was crowded, of course, on Ferragosto, the a ...

Among the most enduring tastes came from the 9th-century conquest by Saracen Arabs, who brought refined cane sugar and almonds, ...

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as tomatoes, capsicum, zucchini and potatoes, while prickly pears and the custom of transforming cocoa beans into chocolate are ...

Franciscan saint, and he and a dozen or so fellow fishermen are dedicated to sustainable practices in the hope of fixing the dam ...

town selling iron tools for special shapes – but things have changed,” Lisetta tells me as she rolls sagne ’ncannulate, twisted ...

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Barbaresco An Australian couple enamoured with nebbiolo has opened a winery and cellar door in a century-old train station in Pi ...

PREVIOUS PAGE Nebbiolo vineyards blanket the hilltops of Barbaresco. Clockwise from this page: La Stazione winery and cellar doo ...