by Susanna Gaertner | Jul 30, 2020 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Salmon, sauerkraut, and fennel sounds like a weird if not downright disgusting combination but it’s my favorite new summer salad! Tinned salmon is both economical and healthy, loaded with the Omega 3 fatty acids that fish is famous for. Canned pink salmon...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 12, 2020 | Food, Food blog
Romans, the world’s first recorded gourmets, today called buone forchette here in caput mundi, owe their obsession with food, at least in part, to fellow citizen Marcus Gabius. Better-known as “Apicius”, he was a wealthy and decadent epicure who in the...
by Susanna Gaertner | Feb 3, 2020 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Pumpkin Bread Two recipes for this winter favorite, plus two uses for the opened pumpkin purée can! One is a bread, the other more like a cake…try them both. This one is more of a bread than a cake; the slices want to be buttered! The recipe calls for butter...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 1, 2019 | Food, Food blog
While gelato, panettone, cannoli, torrone, and tiramisù are beloved worldwide, other Italian sweets are less well-known and even regional. Some examples are bônet in Piemonte, sbrisolona in Lombardy, torta Barozzi in Emilia-Romagna, tozzetti in Tuscany and Umbria,...
by Lucy Gordan | Nov 18, 2019 | Food, Food blog
Two years ago, just after its first championship, businessman/tourism promoter Francesco Redi, the creator and organizer of the Tiramisù World Cup, came to the headquarters of the Associazione della Stampa Estera (Foreign Press Association) in Rome to promote his...
by Susanna Gaertner | Sep 3, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
In this heat, it’s time to round up some terrific salads, by which I mean hearty ones that are more than lettuce leaves with dressing. Pasta salads are of course a favorite but today I’m going to replace the pasta with couscous, according to Food.com, “a...
by Susanna Gaertner | Jul 18, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
A perennial favorite, this refreshing veggie/fruit salad is perfect for indoor and outdoor meals during the hottest days of summer. Jicama is a tuberous root packed with potassium, rich in fiber and vitamin C, its flavor a crunchy cross between an apple and a water...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 1, 2019 | Food, Food blog
Born in suburban New Jersey, Scott Wiener has no Italian blood. His ancestry is Jewish Russian and Polish. Yet from an early age pizza became Scott’s favorite food. And now, for the past eleven years, since April 27, 2008 to be exact, this Neapolitan specialty has...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 28, 2019 | Food, Food blog
The Margherita family built the Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda (Matera) during 1892. This small town in Basilicata was the birthplace of Agostino Coppola (1883-1964), the grandfather of the American movie-director, Francis Ford Coppola. Agostino always referred to...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 4, 2019 | Food, Food blog
“Because of its history of regional political division,” Wikipedia tells us, “Italy specializes in many different kinds of bread, reflecting its great regional variation and widely different bread-making recipes and traditions. In general rolls are typical of the...
by Susanna Gaertner | Jan 3, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Trifecta of winter vegetables to keep you warm inside Hearty and healthy and perfect for the long cold spells ahead, this earthy, budget-friendly soup should satisfy just about everyone. Ingredient quantities are very loosely measured here…just how big is a...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 7, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Everyone would almost certainly agree that Italy’s cuisine is regional not national. The origins of its various dishes depend on who the regions’ rulers were before the Unification of Italy in 1870 and on their “KM. 0” ingredients. For examples, Austria in Friuli...
