Photos for Purchase
Any photo on this site is purchasable for private or commercial use. Please contact me for pricing and purchase or licensing.Subscribe to Blog via Email
-
Recent Posts
- Join Me in New Orleans!
- London Called – Day Four – Part 2 – Nightlife at Nightjar
- Day Four – Part 1 – A Day Out of London – The Sportsman – A Genuine Delight
- London Called – Travels With Doc – Day Three – Ozone, Gymkhana, Sipsmith & Noble Rot
- London Called – Travels With Doc – Day Two – Brooklyn, Gunpowder, Bar Termini & Lyle’s
Recent Comments
- suzanne carreker-voigt on Game On at La Buena Vida in Madrid
- docsconz on A Taste of Northern Spain – Part 6: A Fabulous Finish – Navarra, La Rioja and Madrid
- North Country Rambler on A Taste of Northern Spain – Part 6: A Fabulous Finish – Navarra, La Rioja and Madrid
- A Taste of Northern Spain – Basque Bravos... on A Taste of Northern Spain – Part 5: Basque Bravos – Eskerrik Asko Donostia
- North Country Rambler on The Docsconz 15 Most Extraordinary Restaurant Dishes of 2015
Tags
Aki Kamozawa Albert Adriá Aldea Alex Talbot Andoni Luis Aduriz Barcelona Bocuse D'Or Brooklyn cocktails Corton Daniel Boulud Danny Meyer Elba elBulli Ferran Adria Gavin Kaysen George Mendes Gerry Dawes Grant Achatz Ideas in Food Johnny Iuzzini Jose Andres Lyon Madrid Madrid Fusión Michael Laiskonis New Orleans noma NYC Restaurants Paco Morales Rene Redzepi restaurants Saratoga Farmers Market Scott Boswell Sean Brock Shola Olunloyo Slow Food Slow Food Saratoga Region Spain Spanish restaurants Starchefs Starchefs ICC Starchefs International Chefs Congress Taste of the Week Thomas Keller@docsconz
Categories
- Albany Wine and Dine For the Arts
- Amaris Galea-Orbe
- Amy Persons
- Andrew Sconzo
- Architecture
- Arizona
- Art
- At the Market
- BeNeLux
- Big Apple BBQ
- Big Green Egg
- Bistronomic
- Bocuse D'Or
- Books
- Boston
- Boutique
- Brazil
- Bruce Sconzo
- California
- Cheese
- Chef Challenge
- Chef Sache
- Chicago
- Chile
- ChowderFest
- Cocktails & Libations
- Coffee
- Cook It Raw
- Cooking
- Culinary Blogs
- Culinary Personalities
- Culinary Shopping
- Current Affairs
- CVap
- Dartmouth
- Events
- Family
- Fermentation
- Film
- Fine Dining
- Florida
- Flowers
- Food and Drink
- Food Events
- Food Lit
- France
- From Our Garden
- Fundraising
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Health
- Holidays
- Hotels
- Identitá Golose
- Imbibe & Inspire
- Ireland & Scotland
- Italy
- James Beard Awards
- Las Vegas
- Litfest
- LJ Sconzo
- Lucas Sconzo
- Madrid Fusión
- Maryland
- Meatopia
- Mesamerica
- Mexico
- Michael Talalaev
- Montreal
- Music
- Musings
- New England
- New Jersey
- New Orleans
- New York City
- On the Farm
- Pacific Northwest
- Pastry
- Peru
- Philadelphia
- Photo Posts
- Places
- pranks
- Q&A's
- Recipes
- Regional
- Restaurants
- Retro Photos
- Robert Brown
- Rocco Verrigni
- Rocky Merchant
- Roots Action
- Sara Gardener
- Sarah
- Saratoga Food and Wine Festival
- Scandinavia
- Science
- Slow Food
- Southern Food & Cooking
- Spain
- Sports
- Starchefs
- Switzerland
- Taste of the Week
- Television
- TGRWT
- The Heartland
- The Southern USA
- Top Restaurant Meals
- Top Tastes
- Traditional Ethnic
- Travel
- Travel With Doc
- Turkey
- Upstate NY
- Video
- Virginia
- Washington, D.C.
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
- Wine
Culinary Blogs & Websites
- Adventurismo
- Alegria in Mexico
- Alinea Restaurant
- Aroma Cucina
- chadzilla
- Chuck Eats
- Cookcooning – Stéphanie Biteau
- Curious Cook
- Dining & Wine – New York Times
- EatFoo.com – Group Foo(d) Blog.
- Eating Las Vegas
- el Bulli
- Food Curated
- food for thought – a miami food blog
- Fussy Little Blog
- Gerry Dawes
- High End Food
- http://www.studiokitchen.com/_blog/Studio_Kitchen
- Hudson and Saratoga Local Foods
- humbling attempts at creativity
- IDEAS IN FOOD
- John Talbott's Paris
- JOHNNY IUZZINI
- Kayahara
- Khymos
- Leslie Parke
- Lisa Abend – Writer, and author of The Sorcerer's Apprentices
- Lucy's Kitchen Notebook
- McDuff's Food & Wine Trail
- Mexico Cooks!
- Michael Laiskonis
- My Sweet Addictions
- official blog of elements restaurant | elements, the blog.
- Over a Tuscan Stove
- Passport to Eat
- PAUL LIEBRANDT
- playing with fire and water
- pocketfork
- Rachel Laudan: A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
- Rancho Gordo: Experiments from my mostly New World kitchen and gardens
- Restaurant noma
- Seventy Per Cent
- Slow Food Saratoga Region
- Slow Food USA
- Spamwise
- Starchefs
- Sternfresser
- Steve Barnes – Albany NY Restaurants and Dining Blog – Table Hopping
- Tasty Travails
- The Chowfather
- The Dairy Show
- The eGullet Society for Culinary Arts and Letters
- The People Who Feed Us
- The Quenelle
- The Rambling Epicure
- The Spanish Hipster
- the ulterior epicure
- The Wine Camp Blog –
- This Guy's Food Blog
- TOMOSTYLE
- Very Good Food
- wolvesmouth
Copyright
Text and Photos © Docsconz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Tag Archives: Isola d’Elba
Italy With My Son 2012: Rome is Pazzo
We awoke early and actually left the apartment by 6AM to get the 6:55 ferry out of Rio Marina. We were there for the sunrise. There were only a few cars and people on the ferry. A chocolate croissant was […]
Posted in Bistronomic, Food and Drink, Hotels, Italy, Regional, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel
Tagged Deko Roma, Ida Sconzo, Isola d'Elba, Katie Parla, Piazza Navona, Pizzarium, Rome, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican Museum
Leave a comment
Italy With My Son 2012 – Farewell to Il Chiasso and Elba
Sunday evening, our last evening on Elba on this trip, we enjoyed another wonderful dinner at Il Chiasso, but this time the mood was bittersweet. We had had a wonderful visit and were sad to be moving on.
Tweet
Posted in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Italy, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine
Tagged Capoliveri, Elba, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Italy, Luciano Casini, Manuela Casini
Leave a comment
Italy With My Son 2012 – Sun Day on Elba
The sunshine all day was not expected as the forecast coming into the weekend was for rain throughout. It was nice to experience at least one day of sunshine and bright blue skies on this beautiful island.
Tweet
Making Il Chiasso’s Riso Nero
This was a tasty dish using sepia to make an incredible risotto. Here’s Il Chiasso’s recipe and technique.
Tweet
Posted in Cooking, Food and Drink, Italy, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Video
Tagged cuttlefish, Elba, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Luciano Casini, riso nero, risotto, sepia
Leave a comment
Making Pasta With Dido at Il Chiasso
Dido, the chef at Il Chiasso, Luciano Casini’s thoroughly charming restaurant in Capoliveri in the island of Elba off of Italy’s Tuscan coast, was kind enough to give my son and I a few cooking lessons, a number of which […]
Posted in Cooking, Food and Drink, Italy, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Video
Tagged 00 flour, Capoliveri, Dido, Elba, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Luciano Casini, making fresh pasta
4 Comments
Italy With My Son 2012 – Porto Azzurro, Rio Marina and the Wonderful Ristorante Grigolo
The plan was to go to the market in Porto Azzurro to pick out our dinner for the evening. We traveled in style. Luciano owns a 1952 Fiat station wagon in mint condition. He drove us in it to the […]
Posted in At the Market, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Italy, Pastry, Photo Posts, Regional, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine
Tagged 1952 Fiat station wagon, Elba, Flavio Denio, Isola d'Elba, Luciano Casini, Manuela Casini, Porto Azzurro, Rio Marina, Ristorante Grigolo
1 Comment
Sunday Photo – A Man and His Automobile
Luciano Casini is one of a kind. He is charming, he is a bon vivant and he is a man of many pursuits. He could have been the person who inspired the famous Dos Equis commercial series on “the most interesting […]
Italy With My Son 2012 – Spaghetti With Sea Urchin
Fresh sea urchin is one of life’s great treats. I love its creamy coolness and coffee-like flavor. At Il Chiasso, the chef, Dido made delicious spaghetti with sea urchin. Following are photos of what he did.
The local sea urchin and […]
Posted in Art, Cooking, Food and Drink, Italy, Photo Posts, Recipes, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Video
Tagged Dido, Elba, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Luciano Casini, sea urchin, spaghetti with sea urchin sauce
4 Comments
Italy With My Son 2012 – Baked Rockfish
As a Mediterranean island one would expect the quality of fish to be splendid and it is. One of the dishes I got to enjoy my first night there at Il Chiasso restaurant in Capoliveri was baked rockfish. Rockfish is […]
Posted in Cooking, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Italy, Photo Posts, Regional, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel
Tagged Capoliveri, cucina, Elba, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Luciano Casini, rockfish
Leave a comment
Italy With My Son 2012 – Simple (But So Delicious) Fried Sardines on Elba
Sardines have a bad rap in the United States. Perhaps, that is because we rarely get to see or eat top quality supremely fresh sardines. They are one of life’s simple pleasures and a backbone of cucina povera, the inexpensive, […]
Posted in Cooking, Food and Drink, Italy, Photo Posts, Recipes, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel
Tagged cucina povera, Elba, fried sardines, Il Chiasso, Isola d'Elba, Italian cooking, Luciano Casini, sardines
Leave a comment
