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Next Sunday, August 22, is the first annual celebration of World Kitchen Garden Day, where we gather in our gardens and celebrate the miracle of all things that grow. Created in response to “National Snack Food” month we get to pat ourselves o (read full article)
The orto, our garden, is producing and life is good. Our store-bought produce has dwindled to lemons and oranges. If we could figure out a way to bring lemon or better yet, lime trees, inside for the winter, then life would be just about perfect. (read full article)
Why do green salads get all the glory? Why not a red salad? Tomato, red pepper, lemon anchovy dressing, sprinkle of oregano. Stay cool everyone! (read full article)
There, in the center of our lunchtime salad is the last Sicilian tuna that I’ll buy and that really sucks. Even the Italians have over-fished their tuna. Sicilian tuna fishing has a long, long history, possibly dating back to the Phoenician or (read full article)
Happy 4th of July to everyone in the US! It's a summer celebration where grills are lit, beers are sipped, watermelon pits are spit at each other (what, you don't that?) and we give thanks to the Brits for giving us our Independence. Here (read full article)
How can I write a risotto recipe that starts with “Roast 1 flock of chickens? Reserve juices.”?? I recently had to roast a lot of chickens, actually an entire flock of them, and as they cooled, there was all t (read full article)
It’s cherry season in Italy, and I’ve been not so patiently waiting to make another batch of Maraschino cherries. Last year’s batch was stupendous, addictive, a reason to drink another Manhattan. With craft cocktails, Slow (read full article)
Woo hoo!!! We have our first ‘harvest’ from our orto (vegetable garden). Well, OK, it might be an exaggeration to call it a harvest, but it was a colander full of rucola (or arugula or rocket, everyone calls it something different, depends on whe (read full article)
According to that ever-flowing fount of knowledge, also known as Wikipedia, Pasta Primavera is an American-Italian pasta dish invented in 1974 by Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque fame. I beg to differ. Pasta Primavera mean (read full article)
Spaghetti alla carbonara is the pasta you make when all you have in the house is pasta, cheese, an onion and an egg and maybe some bacon or pancetta. It's the back up plan, easy way out, in a pinch, gotta eat now sort of dish you should know ab (read full article)
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