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Hello from Frascati and Happy 2021! Here we are over a year into the pandemic and we miss you all so much!  We can’t wait to see you back in Frascati!  The good news is that vaccinated tourists will likely be able to return this summer, so we hope to see some of you soon!  We’ve all been trying to find new ways to keep busy without your lovely faces to keep us company, and we wanted to share a little of it with you. During this long time of forced immobility Giovanna spent her time taking care of animals.  She feeds [...]

We are excited to share with you our new “Best of Frascati” Holiday packages.  We have worked with Forno Ceralli to create a special holiday food box in addition to wine packages!Nonna Rosanna helped us create a special holiday food box which includes many wonderful local products and is a good mix of sweet and savory.  It includes all of the ingredients to make 3 different traditional recipes; 3 packs of high quality pasta (spaghetti, rigatoni, & fettuccine), easy to make polenta, and local tomato sauce (passatta). It also includes 4 different varieties of Nonna’s cookies and a Miss Frascati!  This box [...]

This is certainly a very different 2020 than we all anticipated.  I know many of you have had to cancel your trips to Italy and your visits to Frascati.  Many of you have reached out in the last few months to check in on all of us, and we appreciate all of the wonderful emails and well-wishes that we have received from you over the last couple of months!  Everyone in Frascati has been staying strong through this global pandemic and as the lockdown restrictions in Italy begin to lift we are looking to the future.We know some of you have asked [...]

Old Frascati Food & Wine is a cultural association based in Frascati, we work with local vintners, artisans, chefs, historians and sommeliers to show you the best that Frascati has to offer! We have several food and wine tours that we have created with our collaborators to give the perfect experience for visitors. We are all very passionate about our town’s heritage and love to share it with the world! Frascati is a unique town that has a rich tradition of farm to table cooking and winemaking. We bring you to two of the oldest family-run wineries in the region, a generations [...]

For our wine tours in Frascati we always suggest taking the train since it’s so fast, cheap & easy  Here is a quick video on how not to miss the train to Frascati.

  Making Pizza from scratch is fun & easy!Here we’ll give you the recipe for 1 kilo of flour (which will make about 6 large pizzas).To begin you’ll need: 1 kilo of 00 Flour, 1 litre of water, 5 grams of fresh beer yeast, EVOO, salt, sugar. First, thoroughly clean a sturdy surface. Making sure it’s dry, heap your flour onto it, and in a bowl, mix some warm water with yeast, salt and sugar. Make a deep, high-walled well in the middle of the flour. Slowly start adding a third of the water. Using a fork, bring the flour [...]