Category Archives: Health, diet & nutrition

2011 Kneading Conference, Skowhegan, Maine

August 3, 2011
2011 Kneading Conference, Skowhegan, MaineWhat is it about bread baking that brings out hairy men? Read More
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Easy in the kitchen, Mediterranean style

July 7, 2011
Easy in the kitchen, Mediterranean styleJust 40 minutes in the kitchen, plus 30 minutes to marinate the fish . . . [and] dinner was on the table.Read More
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Heart’s desire: Theme songs for February

February 3, 2011
President Obama declares February to be American Heart Month, as Presidents have done, at the behest of the American Heart Association, every year since 1963. And the AHA, in its advice to the heart’s discontent continues to chant its low-fat/low-salt mantra, which has been promoted and contested by any number of authoritative sources. Meanwhile the Read More
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Ribollita for the Olive Harvest

October 25, 2010
Friends who are vegetarians are arriving next week to help with the olive harvest and I’ve been trying to come up with hearty, filling, main-course vegetarian dishes that will not mean a diet of beans-beans-beans. Here in Tuscany, even though most people don’t eat a lot of meat (despite the fame of porchetta and T-bone Read More
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The Brightness of Pomegranates

October 18, 2010
Veal carpaccio with pomegranate seedsIn Israel for a few days, I’m hearing a lot about “the new Israeli cuisine.” From my perspective, it seems firmly rooted in Middle Eastern antecedents, with a healthy dose of California cool in the form of, mostly, great vegetables and occasionally great fruits as well. Pomegranate, especially, shows up in lots of ways—and I 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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