Home-grown taste of Italy

By Susan Parsons
Updated May 7 2014 - 11:08am, first published April 23 2014 - 3:00am
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Sizzling: Vittorio Montebello cooking his pasta dish, penne alla campagnola, at his property near Bungendore. Photo: Graham Tidy
Sizzling: Vittorio Montebello cooking his pasta dish, penne alla campagnola, at his property near Bungendore. Photo: Graham Tidy

Vittorio Montebello and I were introduced at the Dante Musica Viva concert at the High Court on March 16. A bass singer in the choir, he had just been banging the anvil in Verdi's Il Trovatore, but it was his vegetable garden that had us chatting.