Category Archives: Food history

Ricotta – a true story

October 28, 2012
Massimiliano Mungilli, master cheese-makerThis is Massimiliano Mungilli who makes fine, raw-milk pecorino cheeses, just as his father and perhaps his grandfather did before him, high on a hillside above Vicchio in the Mugello valley of northern Tuscany. The Renaissance, they say, was born here when the shepherd and cheese-maker Giotto was discovered sketching the form of a sheep. Read More
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Sicily summer treat: Caponata

July 21, 2012
caponata on an old Spanish plate from Talavera de la Reinain the way I learned to make this emblematic Sicilian dish, you pretty much just keep frying things in the same oil over and over in successionRead More
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New Year’s Day luck

January 1, 2011
January 1, 2011 (1/1/11) I’m a bookworm at heart, my mother always said so. Give me a good book, fiction or not, and I’m lost in another world, absorbed in the lives of strangers and gone until the final page is turned. Which is what makes me a terrible cook. Because I can sit in Read More
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Introduction to the Food and Wine of Puglia

October 31, 2010
Introduction to the Food and Wine of Pugliaembedded by Embedded Video Download Video http://www.ciaprochef.com/apulia/index.html?source=HomeBanner&segment=Apulia Copyright The Culinary Institute of America 2010.  All rights reserved.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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