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This food blog is inspired by the wonderful home cooking of my Italian grandmother, a native of a small town in Campania called Apice Vecchio. You'll find her recipes here, plus some of my favorite dishes from other parts of Italy, especially Rome, where I lived for ten memorable years.
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Recent Posts Tagged With 'Veneto'
Jun 14
A good many people have an aversion to organ meats. Perhaps that's because they are often very well prepared—overcooking, which tends to accentuate the 'mineral' taste of organ meats and toughen their texture, is all too common. Or perhaps it's jus (read full article)
organ meats, piatti unici, secondi, Veneto
May 15
Sweet, fresh peas in their pods can be hard to find, but when I spotted some in a local market I grabbed them up to make a delicious Springtime dish from the Veneto: risi e bisi, or rice and peas in Venetian dialect. Although it resembles a risotto, (read full article)
primi piatti, Rice, spring, vegetable, Vegetarian, Veneto
Jan 26
Baccalà, or dried salt cod, is a favorite meal around our house, even if it only appears occasionally on the dinner table. One of the most delicious ways to make baccalà has got to be in the style of the northern Italian city of Vicenza, slowly sim (read full article)
fish, piatti unici, Veneto
Jan 24
Polenta is one of the most emblematic dishes of the northern Italian cuisines from the Veneto to Lombardia to Piemonte. It is also one of the oldest foods eaten in Italy, dating back at least to 990 BCE. In its original form, polenta—known to the a (read full article)
Campania, Lazio, Lombardia, Nana, Pasta, piatti unici, piemonte, reference, Veneto
Jan 04
Here's an elegant yet very quick and easy starter that suits just about any menu: a 'carpaccio' of smoked salmon, dressed simply with oil and lemon.All you need to do is arrange thin slices of smoked salmon on a plate (this is a dish that is best pre (read full article)
antipasti, fish, Veneto
Dec 15
It may come as a surprise to some, but Italy has a Jewish tradition going back not just centuries, but millennia. A Jewish community existed in Rome dating from during the Roman Republic, even before the Empire, in the first centuries BCE. That prese (read full article)
Jewish, primi piatti, Rice, Veneto
Oct 24
Risotto, as we all know, is an almost infinitely variable dish. You can pair rice with almost any meat, fish, vegetable or even fruit. One of the very finest ways to make risotto is with radicchio, whose mildly bitter flavor makes it a wonderful foil (read full article)
Fall, primi piatti, Rice, Veneto, winter
Oct 17
Pappardelle, those extra-wide egg noodles typical of Tuscany, are perhaps my favorite pasta, although it's a very hard call. There's something about wide noodles—I love Chinese ho fun noodles, too—that are especially enticing. Perhaps the most we (read full article)
Pasta, primi piatti, vegetable, Veneto