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Be "still" my heart
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Do you think I could get this through customs?
We also discovered that there's a horse butcher just down the road
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but more about that later.
There was something a bit unusual going on today...
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many groups of costumed folk were wandering around the laneways, armed with banners and instruments.
From the Slow Food Market we bought some
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Toma Pastoral and
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a cows milk blue...
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...along with some sunflower honey and an artisan choc hazelnut spread called Nocciolape...
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...refreshing Baladin beer...
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...and this amazing culatello salami - it's made from the meat that is cut from the leg when making culatello.
Our final purchase and some might say our finest
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lovely white truffle.
During our afternoon walk yesterday Paalo had said that he'd love to see a wedding at the Duomo and guess what - there's a wedding today at the Duomo!
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awwww...so pretty.
Strange juxtaposition - time for dinner. I mentioned earlier about the Horse butcher - it's a very discrete business and unless it's open you don't even know it's there. I know we've walked up and down that road and never noticed it.
Now having a blog called "eat almost anything" we feel we're obligated to do so which means I toddled into the very busy butcher and bought this:
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a tramezzo di cavallo - there is rocket and fontina sandwiched inside two thing layers of minced horse - a kind of triangular hamburger.
I sautéed this in a pan in a little olive oil and butter and served it with a new potato and red pepper stew.
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Delish!
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The empty plate a sign of satisfaction.
After our dinner we headed downstairs and jostled for a vantage point to see tonights festivities.
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Next weekend, the Palio degli Asini (Donkey Race) is on and tonight is the start of the festival - the teams from the 9 different borgi of Alba are competing and later the donkeys will be assigned their borgo.
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here comes the stars of the show...
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The donkeys are paraded round and round the square and every now and again the commentator announces an allocation of the donkey to a borgo - I not quite sure how they make this decision - but I do know
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that these two guys are the most important people of the night
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After the piazza is cleaned, it's back to flag tossing!
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It's comes to and end with an explosion of glitter and the "royal and sacred" party marches off into the night.
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