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Category Archive for 'balsamico'

Spuma di Mortadella: Let’s Hear it for Preserved Meat Foam!

Posted in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italian, Italy, Meat, Modena, Pasta, balsamico, cream, ground meat, pork, ravioli, sandwiches, sausage, travel on Sep 16th, 2009

At Via Clavature 18, hidden in the back streets of Bologna, is the comparatively charmless little Ristorante da Gianni. It’s dimly lit, almost to the point of stumbling darkness — especially if you enter, as we did, from the sharp rays of a late midsummers’ afternoon nursing a fierce hangover brought on by a handful of Negronis the night [...]

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You’ll Gain Weight Just Looking At This Post! Lardo.

Posted in Emilia Romagna, Italian, Italy, Modena, Pizza, Recipe, Tuscan, acorns, balsamico, delicacy, indulgent meal, lard, lardo, pigs, rosemary, salami, tourism, travel, unhealthy, vinegar on Nov 7th, 2008

Have you ever eaten something so fabulous, so lucious, so decadent that you almost felt the need to run to confession (to confess your indulgent food “sins”), say three Hail Mary’s (that’s for you Catholics out there) and pray really hard that you can zip your jeans up again? Ok, a bit exaggerated, but looking [...]

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