HeyJaredTaste Bologna
My monthly news about the Bologna food scene, with restaurant reviews, travel suggestions and more
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I was wrong about truffle hunting (opens the original)
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I’ll start with a confession: for years I kept truffle hunting away from Taste Bologna on purpose. I was sure it was a show for tourists, with a truffle buried the morning before so the dog could “find” it right on cue.Then Nicholas called me. A few weeks later I was on my knees in the mud, pulling a white truffle out of the ground with my own hands.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ReVa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
I hate "Hidden Gems" (opens the original)
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I hate the term “hidden gem.”It’s so overused on social media that, in 2026, it has lost all meaning. Thanks to Instagram and TikTok, every square inch of every city is mapped, tagged, and monetized. To be truly “hidden” today, a place either opened yesterday or it’s so bad nobody wants to go there.Most “hidden gem” lists you see online are a joke. They’re usually filled with the same tourist traps with 45-minute lines outside. Places I would never set foot in, let alone take a friend or a tour
3 "Classic" Italian foods you will never eat on my tour (opens the original)
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There are three “iconic” Italian foods almost every traveler secretly expects to taste when they arrive in Italy.And if you join one of my tours, I refuse to serve you a single one of them.No fluff, no clichés. Our job is to feed you the real Bologna (and the real Emilia). Not chase commercial trends you can find anywhere from Venice to Palermo.Here are three things you will never see on our table.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FdDO!,f_
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