Award for Dumbest News Story of the Week

March 3, 2013
Award for Dumbest News Story of the WeekAnd the winner is: Joe Queenan of the Wall Street Journal with his Saturday plaint about the Mediterranean diet. And before I go any further, I’m also promoting his stupidity on the short list for dumbest news story of the year. Listen to this: “The Mediterranean Diet might just as well be called the Monastic Read More
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Fresh Green Garlic/Golden Soup

July 14, 2011
Fresh Green Garlic/Golden SoupAnne Raver’s lovely piece about New Mexico garlic grower Stanley Crawford in today’s New York Times reminds me that I forgot to put up a recipe for garlic soup, a perennial favorite that is at its best right now, when early garlic in farmer’s markets is so sweet and flavorful compared to what’s available the Read More
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Panzano’s Divine Butcher

October 18, 2010
Adapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/cooking/551-panzanos-divine-butcher Italy’s Dario Cecchini, the famed butcher in ‘Heat,’ expands on Antica Macelleria Cecchini. On a spring Sunday when the Tuscan weather typically can’t decide between sunshine or rain and gives us a bit of both, Panzano, in Chianti, is lively, bustling with locals as well as tourists Read More
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Olive Oil Scam? Maybe Not

October 18, 2010
Adapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/pantry/600-olive-oil-scam-maybe-not New study finds extra virgin olive oil isn’t always extra virgin. Light and heat may be the culprits. The world of extra-virgin olive oil was thrown into turmoil recently by a report from the Olive Center at the University of California, Davis. A Davis research team tested Read More
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An Exaltation of Apples

October 18, 2010
An Exaltation of ApplesAdapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/baking/653-apple-tarte-tatin Tarte Tatin was invented, so we are told, late in the 19th century by one of the two Tatin sisters, les demoiselles Tatin, who kept a restaurant, the Hotel-Terminus Tatin, in the Loire valley town of Lamotte-Beuvron. Yeah, right, I used to say, and Marco Polo brought Read More
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  • Tuscany Spring 2013 AmorOlio

    March 25 – 31 and April 22 – 28, 2013, at Villa Campestri, the world’s only olive oil resort located in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

  • TUSCANY AUTUMN 2013: AMOROLIO

    OCTOBER 21 – 27 Plans are shaping up for our autumn AmorOlio program, October 21 to 27, 2013, at Villa Campestri (“the world’s only olive oil resort”), in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

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