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Bluone Press Reviews
​Bologna, Italy's Food Paradise - Never Stop Traveling - by Jim Ferri (April 23, 2014)

Truffle Hunting in Italy - Never Stop Traveling - by Jim Ferri (February 12, 2014)

Baltimore Examiner - Foodies Travel - Foodies let their taste buds plan the traveling

The New York Times - Venus’s Navel: Tortellini Lessons at the Source

International Travel News, February 2010 - Learning the art of Italian cooking in Bologna

Travel Tips - USA Today - Bluone Wine & Cooking Tours in Italy

Eat & Travel Weekly Hong Kong - Born to be food lover - Bologna, Italy 2010年10月15日 (pdf 3,7 mb)

Born near Bologna, Marcello and Raffaella are exuberant, fun loving types who start talking to almost anyone so they know a vast network of local chefs, home cooks, food and wine producers, truffle hunters and more. Truly passionate about their work, they scour the countryside to find undiscovered gems. You get to know a cast of local people you’d never meet on your own in hidden corners of small towns and countryside you’d never find on your own.  Thanks to their warm relationships, you enjoy special treatment.  Lots of fun and laughter in authentic Italian life!

True “Bolognesi” know the best restaurants are in smaller places outside Bologna. Marcello and Raffaella take you to eat and drink where they go with friends---top quality places that reflect long family traditions.

Their grandparents and parents handed down traditions of down home style hospitality coming from the heart. As you bathe in Marcello and Raffaella’s warm hospitality, you feel pampered by your new friends. You experience real life with a Bologna family and their three adult children as you eat, drink, laugh and share stories around their table in their home in Bologna.  You feel part of the family. You take home beautiful memories you’ll treasure forever.

Marcello and Raffaella have owned Bluone Cooking Tours, a licensed tour operator**, since 1995 and have been married since 1980. Raffaella’s passion for traditional cooking and local foods started as a child in her family’s kitchen. Marcello has worked in the travel business and traveled extensively since 1978. The perfect combination of skills and passions for their tours!

Their clients felt so enthusiastic about their extraordinary, fun adventures in Emilia-Romagna that they urged Marcello and Raffaella to create cooking, food and wine tours in other Italian regions, so they could travel with them again and again. Over the years, Marcello and Raffaella have worked with enthusiastic local people, who shared their vision and passions, in Umbria, Le Marche, Piedmont, Veneto’s Prosecco region and Puglia, and created exciting new cooking, food and wine tours.
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** Tour operators (and travel agencies) are the only ones authorized by Italian law to sell tour packages.