SPEAKING TUSCAN IN THE KITCHEN/ LA CUCINA PARLA TOSCANO
May 20 - 226, 2012, Villa Campestri, Tuscany A Tuscan cooking course with Nancy Harmon Jenkins for details click HERE
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DUNNO MUCH ABOUT OLIVE OIL BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE!
Jean- Benoît smiled half-apologetically: “I sometimes think that’s the only way to get the authentic flavor of a true Provençale aïoli,” he said.Read More
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Backyard Chickens, Locavore Greens, and Food Trucks: A Maine Miscellany
And we, in poor old retro Maine, we just stumble along way behind all those hipsters to the south and west of us.
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Take that, you locavores!
This was the sign in my local butcher shop in Cortona when I passed by a couple of days ago: The hand lettering advertises “Vitella Chianina”—vitella being something like what we would call baby beef, i.e., not a full-grown steer but still something much more imposing than a veal calf: “From the mountains,” it says,
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Also posted in Italian Food and Travel, Italy, Olives and olive oil, Salads 3 Comments
The Longest Winter
I woke this morning to yet another snowfall, this one downy soft, yielding only about four inches by the time it had stopped. Truly, this seems like the winter with no end. Times like these I wonder about our ancestors here in Maine—even a hundred years ago, most people had no electricity and relied on
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Last minute treat for the holidays