It’s a been a while! Hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the Spring. I’ve been out and about and all over the place in the last several months…keeping busy and not having much time to devote to Italyville but I hope that changes. I did want to share a few of the [...]
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 Custom Search  | The weather is steadily getting colder here in New England and with Thanksgiving around the corner there are different foods showing up at the grocery store. The summer fruits and veggies are gone and have made room for autumn foods and for me that means castagne (chestnuts.) In Calabria they still have plenty of [...] The east coast has been been getting hit pretty hard with winter weather recently and with another major storm heading this way,it looks like winter is far from done. (Damn that groundhog!) If you’re looking for a hearty dinner for a cold winter’s night, look no further than this Italian Lentil Soup. It’s [...] I was in New York City most of this week and Wednesday I got a chance to do some exploring,so I decided to do a little foodie tour of the city. After my morning coffee and chocolate briosce at a small cafe’in Soho,I headed off to find some “Italian”in the [...] 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 [...] Last summer I made a recipe that Lorraine at Italian Foodies posted and it was a huge hit with everyone who tried it. Since then I have passed the recipe along to several friends who love it just as much as we do. When I found these wonderful porcinis the other day,I thought [...] Italians like to make way too much food. Have you ever been to an Italian wedding or baptism or holiday dinner or any Italian occasion where food is served…and left hungry? My mother always worries that there won’t be enough food… Me:What did you make? Mom:I made some soup,a few [...] The question is,what is Italian food? I continuously see commercials for large chain restaurants that promote their pizza or pasta or panini or whatever “they think”Italian food is and how they have conquered it…finally!! The ones that irk me the most recently are from Pizza Hut. One commercial shows how they [...] I’ve made lots of friends through sopressata…I really have. My father has been offered money,a friend wants to feature it in a future restaurant he is opening and one of my Irish buddies has somehow gotten “in”and now chips in financially and helps make them in order to get a share…[...] This delicious fruit has many names:Prickly Pear,Cactus Pear,Tuna,Cactus Apple and in Italian:Fico d’India (ficundiana in calabrese)…here at italyville.com,I call it Y-U-M-M-Y! The cactus that produces cactus pears is abundant in many areas of Italy (especially in the south) as well as here in [...] |    |  | ||
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