Category Archives: Italian Food and Travel

Strawberry Risotto

July 1, 2011
Strawberry RisottoSara’s strawberry risotto from school days in RomeRead More
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May 11, 2011
clear tasting glasses at Villa CampestriI’ve just come home from two glorious days at Villa Campestri in the Mugello, a beautiful green valley northeast of Florence that is blessedly free of tourist hordes. With Paolo Pasquali, who owns Villa Campestri, and his daughter Gemma, I’ve been plotting a week-long olive oil intensive for next October, starting Saturday the 15th, when Read More
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Carciofi in Tortiera

May 10, 2011
These plump beauties are called cimaroli, because they come from the top of the plant.It’s artichoke season in Tuscany. Markets are full of these wonderfully weird-looking vegetables which come in half a dozen different varieties, ranging from big fat round globe artichokes, very similar to what we have in America, to gorgeous, long and slender, purple tinted ones. Most of the artichokes here lack the prickly centers that make Read More
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AMOROLIO: For Love of Olive Oil

April 29, 2011
AMOROLIO: For Love of Olive OilFor several months now, I’ve been working with my friends at Villa Campestri here in Tuscany to develop an olive oil program that will, we hope, go a long way toward expanding knowledge of this precious ingredient that adds both good health and bountiful flavors to just about everything in the kitchen or on the Read More
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Fusty, musty and rancid: Tasting extra-virgins

April 29, 2011
Tasting oils at the Department of Agrarian Biotechnology, University of Florence, April 2011The title of the two-day seminar was very clear: Methods for evaluating the sensory properties of extra-virgin olive oil, and Professor Erminio Monteleone stressed in his opening remarks that we had not gathered to evaluate particular oils but to understand the methods of evaluating them. It was tough stuff, tougher than anything I’ve done in Read More
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  • 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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