Heart Tour

When the people learn I possess a business of turn of school of kitchen of Italy, they are intrigued, "How you did is begun"?

As you will see in these three stories of turn of Italian kitchen, I followed my heart, went with the flow and a collection of "coincidences" happy arrivals. You can apply these ideas to grow your life and your matters.

The story the One: The Country of Wine of Barolo of Piedmont

In 1993 I traveled in the country of wine of Barolo in northwestern Italy. In an office of tourism I found a leaflet for the turns of hike of country of local wines. I like to go on foot if I telephoned the turn leader, Elio.

Next year I faxed Elio for the news on his weekend of hike of June. Three weeks only examined later details came through the fax. The cost of turn very small, therefore I went.

As went us on foot, I said Elio I prepared a book on the vacation of school of Italian kitchen. It said, "I have an itinerary of turn of kitchen for here".

I looked at it, "You have four lesson of kitchen in four restaurants. Certain of them I read of in the Spectator of Wine. I want to go"!

It said, "To Find six people". It would never run the turn of school of kitchen, did not speak the English and did not know that the customers would be.

The country of wine of Barolo felt as a way with a heart with its light hills that falling of the all of the angles, covered with the vineyards, the fields, the forests, surpassed with the hill cities, some crown with the castles. So beautiful, therefore poetic!

I had gone on foot in the turns to Tuscan with a business of English turn that did the attention to the good food, therefore I knew our type of customer, but I would never run or sold turns.

I sent the press relacchements that describes how you would cook cake of chocolate and hazel bathed in the sauce of zabaglione of wine of Moscato with the boss of kitchen of restaurant to the former residence of summer of the King Carlo Alberto. The Globe & the newspaper of Mail published to Toronto communicated it press that attracted a group of contractor for our first one turned of school of kitchen in 1995.

Now Elio and I offer to cook of the and the wine turns to Piedmont, the Coast of Azure and Tuscan.

The story Two: Bologne & His Landscape, His Paradise of Gastronomic Italy

In 1998 an animated man to Bologne, Marcello, telephoned me. It had heard about my guide to 110 vacation of school of kitchen and to have said in Italy, "the next time you are at Bologne, come and we to see of our turns of school of kitchen". I classified far its coordinated ones.

Six months later Tony, a boss of executive kitchen to a golf in New York to the north, telephoned me. His group of 16 bosses of kitchen wanted a professional that cooks the program to Bologne. Person it had contacted could offer a program to Bologne. I said, "I have a contact to Bologne".

I sent by e-mail Marcello and with his woman, Raffaella, we created a professional that cooks the itinerary of turn of school for the kitchen bosses. When Tony said that his group liked the itinerary, I went to Bologne to examine the voyagiste of school of kitchen and visits the people and the places on the itinerary.

In Italy I telephoned Marcello, "I will reserve a piece to the same hotel I remained another time to Bologne".
"No, we will pay attention to that," it replied.

They seemed as friendly, the professional types if I them proud. We arranged to meet at the train station of Bologne. There a man in the blue John and a sweater appeared on his bicycle. "My woman will arrive in some minutes with the car. Come to our place for coffee".

It was 3:00 afternoon if I had a lot of times to obtain my hotel piece. To their place as spoke us at present, I thought, "Where will sleep-t I tonight? I will have to trust just a little longer".

At last they said, "To Do likes you to remain for the dinner and remains the night? We have a small apartment to right side issue". They were down below to the earth, heat, the funny people with the years of experience in the matters of trip and I liked them. I was delighted to accept.

This first time that I remained at their house, I helped does the dishes. A true shock for them. No invited other had never done that. From that time, they treated likes me the family. I remained at my house of the friends of Bologne a lot time in these 10 years.

After we ran the turn of school of kitchen for the 16 bosses of kitchen in 1999, I suggested that we improve to exist them cooking the turn for the tourists of gourmet to do to like it the turn of the bosses of kitchen.

I had discovered the gastronomic paradise of Italy where I was fascinated on how they do the treasures as the Parmesan one, the balsamic vinegar and prosciutto. I had met a distribution of bosses of local kitchen, the producers of food and the local populations a lot of joy of their work and their life. A region with a big heart for the food lovers!

Since, Marcello, Raffaella and I sold our turn of school of kitchen to Bologne and his landscape and increased to Umbria and The Market.

The story Three: Etna of Mount of the Sicily & the Ile of Stromboli

In 1995 to Sicily I took excursions of a day to the fields of wash of Etna of exotic Mounts and the island of Stromboli, a charming place with an active volcano on a black one and a green mountain, white house, the volcanic beaches of black sand.

In 2005 I returned at last to Stromboli on a quick boat of Naples and remained three days. Then I discovered the quick boat was finished return for the season.

Obtain to Rome implied three hours on the ferry and six on the train. I mentally slapped myself for the poor ones that plans. A voice in me said, "Maybe there is a reason".

On the ferry I sat to a window with two seats empty next to me. On the hillside of Stromboli I saw a rocky formation in form of a big heart. Maybe Stromboli was a heart way for me.

My practical side scoffed at, "the Losses! The good only conversation that you had been with the hotel director"!

To the next harbor that I am raised to stretch itself my legs. When I returned to my seat, I saw one to appear average the man that Italian in the shorts, the shirt of T and go on foot the boots that sits a seat on of my place side window.

A voice in said, "Not a coincidence. Say something to him"!

"Stromboli is very beautiful, this is not"? I smiled. It was a guide that takes groups that go on foot to the volcano. I said it of our turns of school of kitchen of Italy.

It offered me a turn of the harbor to the train station on his house in a manner to the sector of Etna of Mount. It was a pleasant man, therefore I accepted. Then it transferred to the seat to right next to me.

It said me that his family possessed a turn business that does the turns go on foot on Etna of Mount and Stromboli. I shouted, "I always dreamed to run a kitchen and to go on foot visit around the volcanoes to Etna and to Stromboli. Would your family consider turns of food done"? We exchanged cards. To the station that we squeezed the hand.

To the house, I sent it by e-mail. His family was our Sicily cooking the turn partner for two years now.

Qu'ai-t-j'appris? Follow your heart, go with the flow and you will meet the just people and certain facts of the better things in your life and the matters arrives.