Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Easter, Food Commentary, Genoa, Genovese, Italian, Italy, Liguria, Piemonte, Pizza, Restaurant Review, South America, anchovies, chick peas, crispy, eating, history, language, onions, restaurant, tourism, tradition, travel on Apr 24th, 2009
It’s fairly safe to say that no group, with the exception of the enigmatic gaucho, played as significant a role in defining Argentine national character as the Italians. Primarily (and principally, numerically-speaking) from Liguria (particularly Genoa), Piemonte and Tuscany, but latterly also from Naples and other areas of southern Italy, these Italian immigrants, literally by [...]
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Posted in America, Easter, Meat, Provencal, bay, braised, bunny, capers, chicken stock, delicacy, dining, diversity, eating, flour, game, healthy, hearty, lower fat, mustard, olives, onions, parsley, podcast, rabbit, rosemary, savory, slow cooking, thyme on Mar 27th, 2008
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It’s the Thursday after Easter and most people out there are still picking the candy and chocolate out of their teeth having just gorged themselves on all manner of Easter Bunny-shaped confectionery. Ever the destroyers of convention, we have been doing something altogether more real and, some may say, sinister. Yes, friends, cover your children’s [...]
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Posted in Castillano, Chorizo, Easter, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italian-American, Italy, Lent, Recipe, Recipes, Saveur, Spain, bacon, baking, bread, cheap meal, cornmeal, culture, easy, egg, flour, holiday, indulgent meal, morcilla, tradition, unhealthy on Mar 21st, 2008
It was as if it was divine intervention. We finally found morcilla (see picture of sausages below – it’s the black one) in a specialty store up the block but we weren’t prepared to make a fabada or cocido – two other Spanish dishes which call for morcilla. I picked up one of my [...]
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