Saturday, a longish drive from Nice to Alba, went along the coast to Savona and then North to Alba. Bobby was waiting for us there, went Friday night so as to spend a bit of time in Torino.

In Menton.

Google said three hours. Took seven,7, beautiful curvy windy. We had planned to get to the paid for talk, Foodie talk, in Alba, at 13:00 or so, get settled in the AirbnB and then wander over to the festival and get seated. Arrived at 17:30 having left at 9:15. We took the coast road, too long though beautiful. Will take the faster higher road on the way back to Nice.

Missed the planned talk.

City set up like the Renaissance fair. Party atmosphere, wall to wall people. Good food.  This pic is of the first course of the degustation menu.  More pics follow in the link.  Pics of the fair and food.

Pics are self explanatory.
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Back yard of Airbnb and inside shot.

Pizza talk at the festival.

The demonstration about 90 minutes. Fried pizza, standard dough pizza, wine, Alta langa brand sparkling. Served sample.

For 35 euro extra shave truffle added. The demo cost 30 euro.

And with truffle at reduced price of 10 grams for 35 euro.

QB ordering. This is how you ask for the “supplement”.

Second demonstration of the day turned out to be a grand appetizer.

Female deer,rare,chestnuts. Designed not to overwhelm the truffle. It’s all about the truffle.

Excellent dish accompanied by sparkling wine, our favorite of the ones served, and an hour of marketing. Unlike the Pizza demo we learned nothing but had a fine appetizer. Non stop dual language about food,wine,pairing,boring.

After sampling some grappa and many items in the market headed back to a pasta dinner with the results of browsing.