Posted in Garlic, Italian, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, cheese, chile, chilli, food, kale, pork, sausage, wine on Nov 14th, 2007
This is a famous (and rightly so) southern Italian dish, popularized in red sauce joints across the north-east of America. I’ve eaten it at Franco & Luigi’s in south Philadelphia and at La Villa in Park Slope, Brooklyn, amongst other places, and enjoyed the contrast of the garlicky sausage, the heat of the pepperoncino and […]
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Posted in Asturias, Chorizo, Food Commentary, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, cheap meal, chick peas, chickpeas, culture, easy, easy meal, food, ham, healthy, hearty, kale, meal, quick meal, sausage, soup, tourism, travel on Oct 11th, 2007
Several years ago, on a trip to northern Spain I found myself in the small town of Santillana del Mar in the region of Cantabria on a cold and rainy night. Outside the hotel, a herd of dismal-looking goats shivered together in the lee of a thorn bush as it got dark, and all I […]
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