Cecchini Tasting menu

dining at Dario Cecchini’s steak restaurant. meat tasting of grassfed beef cuts. 50 euros for meat. All you can drink grappa. dessert. hospitality. awesome.

Chianina

  Here are the beautiful (and extremely old) – 12 year old chianina cows of Dario Cecchini.  We got a tour of the small farm that adjoins a chianti vineyard.  Traditionally, Dario was only getting cattle in Spain because of the lack of good quality cattle in Italy.  Across the board, I really feel we …

Movember supper club

Ever seen people growing mustaches in November and not really knowing what the heck Movember is?  It’s an organization that has raised over 500 million dollars worldwide for Prostate cancer and other cancers…Their motto is “Changing the face of Men’s Health.”  Movember also has a book called Cook like a Man (available amazon UK)… some …

Heading to Montana!

I haven’t done a lot of hunting this year – a bit of diving here and there but I’m really excited to get back in the field, in totally new settings – hopefully snow. rain. ice. hail.  hunting hilltops and on rivers.  I can’t wait.  I’ll write ya from Montana with Pictures!   E  

Lobster

  did a suicide run over to catalina island, with fog so thick you could barely see twenty feet in front along the whole LA–> Catalina crossing.  Needless to say it took a while to get over (9pm launch, 1am arrival).  We hit the first spot where I grabbed 5 lobster and moved to the …

Taco Dollar

If you can find this place amidst the ambuLANCEs racing up and down the streets, the 5-0 patrol cars cruising to make sure the gangsters are overseen, the half dozen fire trucks sirening, and 747s booming overhead, you will find a homey parking-lot hangout where mexican CDs are sold, movies played on a 12inch Television …