Food and Wine September issue is out, with their Italy special issue, and guess how is listed as one of the Cooking School Pioneers!Whoppee!!! 20 years later, I guess so, but all I was really doing was creating the sort of program I myself would like. Small groups, market tours, choosing the menu and if…
Fabulous Feedback
I began my cooking school in Florence in 1988, teaching college students on their semester abroad program how to be Tuscan! Shopping the markets,using fresh food and simple ingredients. To spend more time shopping and less time cooking . I am in this month’s Food and Wine special edition on Italy, listed in the cooking…
Tiny Taste of Torino-EATALY
I love Torino!!! We started going up when our friend Antonio started dating Patrizia, now they have a son that is 20 years old. Having friends is a great way to see a city and why we do it slowly, knowing we can always go back. Last time we finally saw the Cinema Museum in…
Brutto ma Buono
Brutto ma Buono….Ugly but good Heirloom tomatoes are not always pretty but they are pretty good! Rich and almost meaty! Today’s Cuore di Bue ended up in a riff on a traditional summer salad lightened up. Insalata Russa , russian salad, is a classic, made from tiny boiled veggies, usually peas, carrots, potatoes and string…
Small World – Getting smaller every day.
My local farmer Benedetto Saturday’s market in Certaldo is where I now gather new recipes.What better place than from who grows the food I eat!Along with recipes, come tales. Today I was asking for recipes for making rennet for cheese making from the choke from artichokes, a lost art.Benedetto knows how to make it from…
Sweet Summer Gifts
Sweltering heat…. sweet summer gifts! Shopping at the local vendors we found summer in full swing, not willing to wait for tomorrow’s weekly market here in Certaldo, I am finally over my jetlag and needed to cook! Fresh peaches, still warm from the trees turned into a Peach Crumble. We also found Cuore di Bue…
Let’s just say I have been technically challenged this visit to the states.Couldn’t get my wireless setup expect one day….Had problems using the cell phone chip my brother left me… Spent too much time working..as usual! Can’t wait to get home to rest… from these vacations in the US I am sitting in the Cinncinati…
Queen of Easy
I love to cook, but not to spend all day sweating over long, tedious recipes.I have no big machines got rid of all those. My way of cooking is to tweek recipes to make them easy,but without losing the flavor and quality. A perfect example, instant mash potato gnocchithe basket is from Calabria and puts…