Something about winter, the soft light, the morning fog, the change of the color palate in the market that brings a different style of cooking into the home. White is a predominate color in Italy with the white marble from Carrara reflecting light.Rome’s Trevi Fountain is a fabulous example. Slow stews, twice cooking to infuse…
Out with the old…. in with the new
BUON2008 CIN CINTante Belle Cose Time flies when you are having fun. Hard to believe I started teaching cooking classes in Florencein 1988- 20 years ago. When I first began teaching, I worked with college kidson their junior year abroad program.Classes were a series of 4once a weekdinner class with wine and fun!Advice on how…
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Table FullofFood andFriends to share it with I have always heard about the dinner of the seven fishesfor Christmas Eve dinnerBut never known anyone who makes it. My friends coming for lunch on Christmas dayalso requested fishbut only select fishMussels, clams, shrimp and calamari so this year’s menu for our Christmas lunch is Homemade Springrolls(…
Week in Chianti -$10
Hard to believe but true! All it takes is $10 for a raffle ticket for a chance to win a week in Chianti. With a mini Camp Cassoulet thrown in.Kate Hill from Gascony brings Cassoulet to Tuscany.Perhaps you will win both the Tuscan Week and Kate’s Cassoule! From pig to pork, it will be a…
Menu for Hope IV
Christmas is filled with crazy moments of shopping frenzy, parties, food, wine and gift giving. Take a minute, a deep breathe and stop by Chez Pim our Princess Blogger and learn about how you can give a little and help a lot.Her site includes all the information on bidding on your dreams.There are some real…
Sunday Lunch- Dario Cecchini’s Officina
Dario giving a lesson at the Officina Dining at Dario’s is always an experience. What began as shopping with snacks,turned into SoloCiccia restaurantacross the streetand now theOfficina della Bistecca above the shop. Can you say PARTY? Neither cold, nor rain nor sleetwill keep clients from coming to Panzano in Chianti toworship at this temple of…
Let the holidays begin!
Last week I attended one of the events at theSan Lorenzo Market in Florence, which closed the season on this new initiative,opening the market for dinner parties at night. It was a little too cold, inside the market at nightbut the warm broth with tortellini was perfect to warm the atmosphere.We started with a cheese…
Twisting Thanksgiving- Tuscan Style
Salami for dessert?? Living in foreign countries changes your prospective on everything.When I moved here in 1984, I brought my American traditions with me to share with my new Italian friends. To show that an American could cook, I took out all the stops and threw Thanksgiving dinner, of course on a more sensible night, like…