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This was a real find for us, and we are used to really good food in our home city of Vancouver.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7986 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7778
When the finest Italian food shop in the country only sells one fresh sausage, you know it's going to be good. Valvona & Crolla's Fonteluna doesn't disappoint. This is a solid, semi-cured sausage flavoured with chilli and fennel. As it is semi-cured it can be eaten raw as a salami or cooked. It can be cooked by either frying or grilling. As it is a dry sausage it really needs a wet sauce - I like it diced in a tomato sauce, thinly sliced and used as a pizza topping or with peppers.

It's not cheap at £4.95 for 265g but this is concentrated, strong tasting sausage with no water or cheap filler. Highly recommended! It would be a hard soul that would not come out of here the richer in taste and the poorer in pocket. Worth visiting on a Sunday morning, especially for their imported Indian peppercorns, or just to sit and have tea in their restaurant while the world muses and peruses. Blue Mountain coffee or green tea? Jalapenos peppers or habaneros?]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7778 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4945 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4945