Italy In SF

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 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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I just got back from Italy, where I spent ten days in my favorite season in Piedmont! Everything was amazing and great, but there was a huge highlight…

Do I need to say more? Isn’t this fabulous? Look at the variety, black and white truffles, and how big they are!
The most amazing usage of truffle has [...]

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Liguria is the thin strip of land squeezed between the Mediterranean and the Alpi Marittime, the last (or first!) stretch of Alps that embraces Piemonte to the North. Liguria has historically been a harsh land, subject to colonization by foreign powers, with very little arable land and so dependent for food mostly on the sea [...]

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Piedmont is becoming my “third home” in some ways- my husband’s family is from Cuneo, a land of culinary beauties in my opinion! Since neither in Tuscany nor in Romagna beef is central to the diet, I am always captured by the brasati, the famous braised meats of Southern Piedmont cooked for hours with the [...]

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