Category Archives: Mediterranean food and travel

Al mercato

March 18, 2013
Al mercatoDrop me into any town in Italy and if there’s a market to be found, my instincts draw me to it. One clue I look for: little old ladies overburdened with plastic shopping bags. Follow in the direction from which they’re coming and bingo–there’s a market. Like these cardoncelli mushrooms, supposedly collected from the fields Read More
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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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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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AmorOlio update!

August 9, 2012
AmorOlio update!Because of a last-minute cancellation, there are two and possibly three places left in the exciting November olive-harvest program at Villa Campestri with Chef Anita Lo of New York City’s award-winning Annisa Restaurant and me. For more details, see AmorOlio on the above menu. For information about rates or to register, go to: :http://shop.food52.com/deal/12499/6-day-all-inclusive-amorolio-olive-oil-and-tuscan-cooking-immersion-at-villa-campestri-nov-5-11Read 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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  • 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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