Food and drink

  • Death in Venice cocktail a hit

    Death in Venice cocktail a hit

    The Death in Venice cocktail crafted by the Hotel Excelsior’s Tony Micelotta and Robin Saikia, author of the Venice Lido: A Blue Guide Travel Monograph, proves to be a hit, the hotel’s best-selling cocktail in 2012.  See the recipe here » An extract from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, whose hero dies of eating an over-ripe strawberry…

  • Springtime in Friuli

    Springtime in Friuli

    In April, around the perimeter walls of the star-shaped fortress-city of Palmanova in northern Italy, you can expect to see people out in force, armed with plastic bags, some even with scissors, searching the grassy banks for a certain plant. What is it? The answer is “sclupit”, as it is…

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