andiamotrips - campania, italy with karen phillips

Yeah, my blog is based in the Campania region…that’s where I live, that’s what I want to learn about.  That’s what I want to share… So when I attended an event a few months ago where I had a chance to chit chat with Chef Oliver Glowig and ChefDaniele Corona , and received an invite to check out the restaurant that they had recently opened near Rome, I hesitated before I gave my answer. Rome is not in Campania.  I had to think long and hard. Well, not so long… Not so hard… But I needed to find that Campania Connection.  Chef Glowig – received 2 Michelin stars in Capri…Capri Palace to be exact. check Chef Corona – a Neapolitan DOC- from Pianura (Na), a stone's thr0w from the San Paolo soccer stadium. check Connection connected. Chef Glowig and  Chef Corona   A two hour drive one Saturday for lunch.  A day in Barrique, I like to call it.  I arrived about 20 minutes late, oops!  I snapped a pic or 2 at the front door...a somewhat intimidat

While attending Stelle in Strada last weekend in Ischia, I had a chance to bump into Chef  Pasquale Palamaro of Indaco Restaurant .    Bump?   Well, actually searched him out.  I hadn’t seen the chef since September during Ischia Safari , and I was quite curious as to what he had planned to serve during this street festival for charity. Eccolo!  There he is!  In the midst of his mini brigade.  A quick hello, hi, and how ya doin', and Palamaro went back to work.  Work on his dish Cannellone napoletano dripping – Neapolitan cannelloni dripping style.  I, and many many others that evening, watched and waited (somewhat) patiently for our turn for a taste of this fantastic first.  Though a week has passed, I still remember my first bite – taken after a minute or two of admiring the plating- the colors- the splatter/drizzle topping as a homage to the late Jackson Pollock  and Shimamoto Shozo –  artists who  have  inspired the chef’s dishes in the past. I still r