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Meatball-Stuffed Zucchini in Tomato Sauce 26 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
At least once before the end of summer, my mom would make stuffed zucchini. She used smallish to medium-size zucchini, filled them with seasoned breadcrumbs and baked them. We ate them alongside mozza...
Celebrating Italy’s Glorious Vegetables 20 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
In 2008, my family and I took a trip to Venice. Five years later, my most vivid memory of that trip is not of the Piazza San Marco, or the cathedral, or the gondolas wending their way through the cana...
Abruzzo Love 5 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
If you follow my Instagram feed (see the rotating images on the right rail of this page) you may know that I spent the latter half of July in Abruzzo, Italy, tooling around the Maiella and Gran Sasso ...
Gilda’s Insalata di Riso 17 Jul 2013 | 05:19 pm
My mom had three older sisters, none of whom ever married. They shared an apartment in Rome, near Villa Ada, and each managed to forge for herself a respectable career in an era where most Italian wom...
Travelgram: A Trip to Stonewall Kitchen 10 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
I’m just back from a short road trip to York, Maine, where I had the pleasure of teaching two classes at the Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School. I’d never been to Maine before, so I was looking forward ...
Salsa Verde: Make Your Own Sunshine 3 Jul 2013 | 05:39 pm
What do you make when summer is a no-show, when instead of endless days of blue skies and sunshine you are served up rain and more rain? So much rain that instead of tomatoes, peppers and basil, these...
New Book, New Look 25 Jun 2013 | 07:15 pm
We have a launch date, friends. August 22, 2013 is the official release date for The Glorious Vegetables of Italy. To tell the truth, I get a little dizzy at the thought of it. I never expected to wri...
Hello Chicago! 7 Jun 2013 | 04:07 pm
One of my favorite places happens not to be in Italy (shocking!). It happens to be Chicago, Illinois. It’s where I got engaged 21 years ago and where I sometimes imagine I am living in an alternate un...
Peas Please 3 Jun 2013 | 07:52 pm
I like to tread carefully where fresh English peas are concerned. They are delicate and their season is short so I try to make the most of it, usually by doing as little as possible: shell, sauté brie...
Who’s Your Culinary Idol? 22 May 2013 | 04:34 pm
I’d like to tell you about one of mine. Laura del Principe is not a Top Chef or an Iron Chef. She doesn’t have ridiculous bleached hair or tattoos running up and down her arms or a line of cookware cr...
