CURRENT MISSION

finish some creazy cheese experiments

ABOUT ME

i love everything about cheeses. to breed animal, to milk, to produce it, to age it, to sell it, to taste it. i love gardening, vegetable makes me feel good. i growth in Rome where i lived for 20 years... i have experienced different kind of job after highschool and at 24 i decided to study Gastronomy because i really think that food relate humans from different countries in all their diversity and is a way to obtain freedom. without forget that we are what we eat! i joined slow food movement and obtained a degree in Gastronomic science in february 2008, now i am finishing the master degree course in Food Culture and Comunication.
i love to travel, and most a like reggae music but i listen avery kind of music. I have one brother that lives in London...(he is planning to move to argentina) and my parents are still in Rome.

PHILOSOPHY

i dunno how to explain it... but i really think THE DUDE is my Guru so if you have seen The Big Lebowsky ....that's my philosophy....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i love to share, it's much more easy than anything else.
i will be happy to host everyone in Italy...and in few years i am gonna have my own farm, so there will be much more room for people who wants to experience the country life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i surfed many different couches in NewHampshire and Vermont this summer randomly... than i did it in SF (california) and in Belgium, Holland and Germany!!! GReat people, great experience!!!
for two years i hosted trvellers from many country, and now it' s time for me to move. So probably i am going to visit all this new friends.
I CAN FINALLY SAY THAT THE MOST INTERESTING INVENTION ON 20th century AFTER THE MAGNETS IS THE COUCHSURFING!!!

Interests

Food politics, food nutrition, cheese making, affinage, cheese tasting, travel, music, hiking in mountains, surf, biking, visit farmers, eat with people, share experience, photography, film making, film watching.
lots of vinyl !!!!

• animals
• culture
• folklore
• photography
• film making
• dining
• cheese
• gardening
• politics
• traveling
• music
• reggae music
• cycling
• hiking
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

the ghostbusters , the big lebowsky and batman are movies that i can see every day... i love to watch movies but in Italy all movies are dubed in Italian (that sucks). I play Didgeridoo, not very well, and i have never read an harry potter book (and i am not gonna see the movie!!)
OOP i saw all the harry potter movies !!! (3 or 4 years later...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i surfed in a house with 4 hosts and 9 couchsurfers !!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

i have studied food culture and gastronomy mostly about italian and french culture, but i travelled a lot considering the development and the heritage of other countries like Australia, India, USA, and most of european contries food tradition.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy