As I was having lunch with Hedonia a few weeks back we ended up talking about fun food-related idioms. In English there are tons, and that got me thinking to the Italian ones. What do you know, I found a slew!! Not surprisingly for a culture in which food is so entrenched, I realized that [...]
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Few items are as omnipresent in Italian pastry as crema pasticcera, the egg custard that fills morning cornetti, layers pan di spagna, and makes the basis for fruit tarts and zuppa inglese. It is simple, delicious, versatile and tasty! I made a batch at home and have made tarts, crostate, brioches and vol-au-vent desserts for [...]
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Porchetta, an obvious derivative of the word porco, “pork”, is nothing more than what it seems: a roasted pork cooked on a spit for hours at times to create this delicious, moist and flavorful treat available almost everywhere in Italy. Porchetta is the quintessential Italian street food- very rarely you can order it in a [...]
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I am lagging behind with my updates, please forgive me, but today I have the first hands-down recommendation for a place, well, very much outside the Bay Area! I am talking about Locanda dell’Arco in Cissone, Italy. In the heart of Langhe, the wine-producing area of Piedmont where all the big reds come from, you [...]
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I have received many comments incredulous about my first post about the typical Italian breakfast. All Italians who have responded confirm that breakfast is sweet, but everyone who was raised in the US of Italian origins doesn’t remeber sweet breakfast as a staple of their upbringing. Don’t forget Italy was not a very rich country, [...]
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