Posted in Europe, Italian, Italy, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, bunny, culture, dining, food, game, hearty, rabbit, restaurant, slow cooking, spices, stew, tourism, travel, tuscany, wine on Jul 8th, 2008
Remember way back yonder, when the weather was still cool, we were on the search for some rabbit to make? We ended up calling around to butchers around Brooklyn and found a place that had them and asked them to save two for us. When we arrived, the butcher handed us our babies and, with […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Italian, Italy, Recipe, Steak, Tuscan, baking, butter, cream, easy, egg, food, hearty, pepper, salt, side dish, spinach, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Jun 15th, 2008
On almost every diner breakfast menu in the United States you’ll find eggs florentine - a breakfast dish of poached eggs over wilted spinach sitting on half a toasted English muffin (we’ll get into the Englishness of English muffins at another time) and dressed with a hollandaise or bechamel sauce. What makes them Florentine or […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, Vin Santo, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beverage, biscotti, delicacy, dessert, drink, food, grapes, madeira, malvasia, sweet, tourism, tradition, travel, trebbiano, tuscany, wine on May 29th, 2008
Regular readers must find us horrible bores as we bang on about our wedding and honeymoon in Italy last year almost constantly. On our penultimate day of our three week trip, we raided an enormous supermarket in the suburbs of Montevarchi for the Tuscan products we cannot find or cannot afford here in NYC, and […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Coco Lezzone, Florence, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, basil, bread, food, healthy, hearty, soup, tomato, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Oct 3rd, 2007
Last night I posted a story about the Pappa al Pomodoro (Tomato and Bread Soup) I was going to attempt to recreate for dinner. Well, We Are Never Full readers, the recreation was a success! I really hope some of you will try to make this hearty, delicious and simple recipe. It was very easy […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Coco Lezzone, Europe, Florence, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Tuscan, bread, culture, food, healthy, hearty, language, restaurant, soup, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Oct 2nd, 2007
When we were in Florence this past July we had one of the most memorable meals of our life. The simplicity of the dishes, the gruff, “don’t ask too many questions cause everything is good here” service and the down-home ambiance (mama in the corner, the owner is the host, the server and one of […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Elba, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Tuscan, bucatini, culture, dining, diversity, easy, easy meal, eating, food, healthy, nuts, pistachios, restaurant, summer, tourism, travel, tuscany, vegetarian on Sep 15th, 2007
When we were in Italy this June for our wedding/honeymoon we not only ate well, drank too well and gained weight, but we took many food risks. The best nights of food seemed to be the nights when the menus were only in Italian and we forgot our little translation book back at the […]
Read Full Post »
A slightly macabre headline, I know, but the point it attempts to convey is that, instead of being a pig’s idea of paradise (it would be more like a peculiar kind of mortuary, I guess), it is the pork-lover’s paradise. With an entire floor is devoted to fresh meats, charcuterie (norcineria) and cheese (the second […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, alcohol, alcoholic drink, communications, culture, food, holiday, tourism, tradition, travel, tuscany on Apr 26th, 2007
Ahead of our recent wedding in Italy, I penned this blog post because I wanted to write about Italian potables other than wine in the expectation that after a week of chianti, our wedding guests would be ready for something different. As it turned out, many became worryingly wine-dependent over the course of their stay […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, beans, food, important details, tourism, tradition, travel, tuscany on Apr 13th, 2007
Excuse me waiter, this steak looks a little rare…
This post was written like several others on this blog, ahead of our recent nuptials in Tuscany - hence its focus on Tuscan cuisine. Look out for future posts on our attempts to recreate the Tuscan dishes we enjoyed the most.
Now that you’ve come to terms with […]
Read Full Post »
