I was recently at an event in New York City and where Acqua Panna was being served. I had some but I’m not a big fan of Acqua Panna…there’s something about Acqua Panna that doesn’t quench my thirst! Evian has a similar affect for me. I think it’s too “soft.” Does anyone else [...]
| |||||
 Custom Search  | When my parents grew up in Calabria “la Cucina Povera”was in full affect. La Cucina Povera is simply making use of everything/not wasting anything but at the same time creating dishes that don’t sacrifice in taste or goodness. La Cucina Povera emerged due to economic circumstances but continues today in many parts of [...] So I managed to wipe out my entire hard drive last week…to add insult to injury,I have a back-up drive but never got around to hooking it up. All my photos (that I didn’t upload to snapfish) including some of the “fantastic photos”I had yet to post (sorry) and much much [...] A few weeks ago I mentioned that we were having a hard time finding tomatoes here in New England due to a tomato blight in the area and we weren’t going to be able to make sauce this year,which was a big bummer. Well,last week my father found a great deal on [...] Gramigna,is often found on menus in Emilia Romagna but very difficult to find here in the US…let me restate that: Gramigna is difficult to find outside of northern Italy and near impossible to find in the US. So,when I came across it at Ocean State Job Lot (a closeout chain of [...] If you’ve read some of my past “Brand Italy”posts you know I like to rant about companies that try to be Italian without actually trying to be Italian. There are a whole list of companies that introduce products using Italian food appeal and then label them Italian…the problem is,it’s not remotely [...] |    |  | ||
| Copyright ©2012 - All Rights Reserved | |||||