Archive for the ‘Italian cooking’ Category
Honey, honey: 70% less this year …
2009.10.18
I went to the market in Orvieto on Saturday and discovered the honey man. I bought the honey infused with cinnamon sticks … yum yum.
It goes very well with peccorino romano and spicy olives cured in olive oil, garlic, fennel and hot peppers. The honey guy told me all about the […]
Filed under: Italian cooking, Italian politics
Auguri e Buon Polpette in 2009!
2009.01.04
As the green grass of Umbria freezes, there is no better time for making Polpette piccante in sugo sul Polenta. Served with a glass of grechetto, in front of your roaring wood stove, there is no better way to while away the winter months in a coccoon of comfort food.
My recipe feeds 2 hungry […]
Filed under: Art & culture, Italian cooking, everyday life, italian recipe
Food + Wine = Love
2008.08.19
I am on my second glass of sparkling white something-or-other-Orvieto swill from a spout, which is purchased from our neighborhood enoteca; the same enoteca on the corner, sandwiched between the butcher and the picture framer, where the neighborhood afficionados line up at 9:00 am for the opening, ‘cept Mondays when the enoteca has a day […]
Filed under: Art & culture, Italian cooking
