Click on the images below to grab the PDF versions of the books.
The second one includes cocktails created by the three celebrity mixologists who visited Friuli and Nonino in October 2011.
Giannola Nonino meets Marcello Mastroianni
As told to Alessandra Beltrame.
We were in the foyer of a theater. They pointed Marcello Mastroianni out to me. I wanted to meet him. I walked over to him.
“You are an exceptional man,” I said, “please allow me to introduce myself: my name is Giannola Nonino.”
“Nonino, the grappa?” he asked. “I’m the one who should bow before such talent.”
And he actually bowed, right there, in front of everyone. And he kissed my hand.
Now can you see why I love my job so much? It fills me with stupendous emotion.
Image via Matteo Tilley.
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Amaro- and Grappa-infused sandwiches @salumenewyork
Photo via The Huffington Post. Text via Urban Daddy.
Cancel all lunch plans and make way for Liquor-Infused Panini from Salumè, just a few Italian sandwiches that also happen to be sauced up, available now.
This was inevitable. The polygamous marriage of mortadella, cave-aged cheeses you’ve got to pronounce in a hearty Italian accent and the distinct taste of the grappa dripped over the meat. Yes, dripped over. It’s not some complicated process of slow-cooking that burns off all the good stuff. They simply take a medicine dropper and make your sandwich alcoholic.
You’ve got a few options here. They’ve got one with Surryano ham and rye, and another with prosciutto, beets and scotch. There’s a crudo prosciutto with gin. Just taking home a couple pounds of the drizzled meat is another way to go. (Nothing goes with Kraft singles like gin-drizzled prosciutto.)
You’ll notice the booze more in some sandwiches than others, which obviously means that you’ll have to keep returning until you’ve viewed, wafted and expertly tasted each and every one.
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The Sugar Skull by Fogged in Lounge
A super cool cocktail using Amaro Nonino from one of our favorite San Francisco cocktail bloggers (and awesome photographer) Fogged in Lounge…
Nonino featured in Wine Spectator
Elisabetta Nonino and Distilleria Nonino are featured in the June issue of Wine Spectator: “A Grappa Convert” by Jack Bettridge.
Click here to download a printable (PDF) version of the article.
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Our thoughts and prayers for the victims of the Emilia-Romagna earthquake
Above: The Renaissance Torre dell’Orologio (Clock Tower) in the town of Finale Emilia, the epicenter of the 6.0 earthquake Sunday in Emilia-Romagna.
“Firefighters, surveyors, engineers and volunteers struggled through nearly continuous aftershocks on Monday,” wrote Elisabetta Provoledo in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times, “to catalog damage and deter looters one day after an earthquake killed 7 people and left more than 6,000 homeless in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.”
“More than 120 aftershocks rocked the area in the hours following the magnitude-6.0 earthquake, which toppled factories, apartment buildings, and medieval and Renaissance monuments early Sunday.”
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Finale Emilia and the region of Emilia-Romagna…
Of course, the news of the Emilia-Romagna quake brings to mind memories of the tragic 1976 earthquake in Friuli where 989 people were killed, 2,400 injured, and 157,000 were left homeless.
The audio in the video below comes from a young man who happened to be recording an LP record on cassette tape using a microphone when the earthquake occurred. Even after the needle jumped from the vinyl, the microphone continued to record the event.
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