Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Here are some photos from a drive I made last Sunday from Montorio, home to a wonderful Salumi producer called appropriately Salumeria del Parco, to Amatrice which is, of course the home of the famous italian dish spaghetti amatriciana. In between, I drove through the National park named the Mountains of the Lake, through picturesque canyons with beautiful fall foliage, waterfalls, lovely towns...you know, the usual.
The cured meats table with lonzino, prosciutto, wonderful salamis and native variety apples at Salumeria del Parco
The smoking room with smoke
Our little gourmet group with our leader Alessandro helping himself to the salami.
Special thanks to Alessandro for bringing our breakfast wines, Cloudy Bay S.B. and Pineau Charentes, which I had never heard of, but is a wonderfully balanced sweet wine from France.
The entrance to the salami mecca of Montorio.
Salamis hanging from the ceiling, Salvatore uses white pepper in his signature salami which gives a great though mild kick to the meat.
from Montorio to Ortolano
last shades of yellow and red for the fall season
Take a hidden right turn at Ortolano, watch out for the cows in the road and arrive at the Lago di Campotosto
Love this one, no doctoring performed by iPhoto
looking north and...
looking south from the northern tip of the lake near Campotosto
The obligatory picture of cattle
The last of the fall colors
And finally back in Arquata del Tronto home of Pecorino grapes
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