The Milano Files
The Milano Files champions the food, wine, beverage, and lifestyle culture of Milan - home to Italy's most electric food scene. Host Jaclyn DeGiorgio, who considers herself Milan's cheerleader-in-chief, is a food tour guide as well as a food, wine, and travel writer who's lived in the Lombard capital for over a decade. The fiercest champion for her adopted city and its surroundings you'll ever meet, Jaclyn celebrates Milan's, and most of Northern Italy's, overlooked, though no less noteworthy allure--especially on the food front.
The Milano Files
The Italian aperitivo with Carlo Carnevale part 1: evolution and retrograde
The aperitivo is one of Italy's most romanticized traditions, and Milan-based drinks writer and journalist Carlo Carnevale joins Jaclyn DeGiorgio to delve below the surface and discuss its history and significance, with a focus on its role in Milanese social culture. This is part one of two episodes.
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Show notes:
- Merenda sinoira is the Piedmontese term mentioned meaning "snack before dinner"
- Carpano Classico, the original vermouth
- Vermouth di Torino PGI regulations
- Vinicio Valdo is the man who pioneered the Happy Hour-style aperitivo in Milan. His bar was called Roialto, and you can read a recent interview with him here. It's in Italian, but we live in the age of AI. :)
- The Botanical Club in Isola opened in 2015 but is no longer open.
- Rita in the Navigli is the 20-year-old cocktail bar in Milan that Carlo mentions -- it's excellent!
- The Milano Files season 1 episode 7 discusses natural wine in Milan, and you might want to give that a listen as well as there is some overlap with certain facets of Milan's contemporary beverage culture.