Posted in Cacio e Pepe, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Rachel Ray, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, Rome, butter, cheap meal, cheese, culture, easy, easy meal, food, language, meal, noodles, pepper, quick meal, restaurant, savory, spicy, tourism, tradition, travel, vegetarian on Apr 29th, 2008
I think the title of this post says it all about my feelings (and others) about the famous Romans dish of pasta, traditionally spaghetti, with pecorino cheese and a good amount of freshly ground pepper. The name says is all - cacio, meaning cheese, and pepe meaning pepper. We’re not breaking any new ground here […]
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Posted in Brooklyn, Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Park Slope, Pizza, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, anchovies, basil, capers, cheap meal, cheese, cornmeal, culture, delicacy, easy, easy meal, food, important details, mushrooms, onions, pie, rant, restaurant, sauce, technique, tourism, tradition, travel, truffles, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Apr 14th, 2008
We love pizza. We LOVE pizza. If we could eat one thing for the rest of our lives it would be pizza. During our seven weeks spent in Italy over the past two years, we collectively ate over sixty pizzas. This is not a lie, an exaggeration or a pipe dream. We were not force-fed, […]
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Posted in Europe, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, Rome, bacon, culture, easy, food, guanciale, pancetta, parsley, sauce, tomato, touriism, travel, tuscany on Dec 17th, 2007
I’ve just died and gone to heaven. I just cooked with guanciale (cured pigs jowels/cheeks). I just ate guanciale while sitting back on my couch in my crowded, rent-is-just-too-damn-high apartment watching TV. If only every night could be like this.
If you read our blog (or know us personally) you will know how important Italy is […]
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I felt majorly bloated after an over-indulgent food week, eating out 5 out of 7 nights a few weeks ago. This was totally abnormal for us poor folks - usually we are only able to grab dinner out of the house an average of once a week. That specific week was different - we had guests from […]
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