Ingredienti Italiani: Mozzarella Starting this week, for La Piazza’s new “Ingredienti Italiani” series, I’ll be sharing brief notes on favorite Italian recipe ingredients–itemized and brought to you in totally random ... Read more
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Italian Cooking Ingredients: Guanciale, Cured Pork (Ingredienti Italiani)
Guanciale {gwanCHAleh} (aka porky goodness) Pig’s cured jowl/neck meat is a considerable Italian delicacy, as it imparts unique flavor and smooth sumptuousness to any dish or sauce. The word guanciale ... Read more
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Panna Cotta Recipe: Traditional Italian Dessert Recipes
From the first bite I was undone. I closed my eyes in sheer bliss as the silken panna cotta melted on my tongue, mingling with caramel sauce so intense it was almost bitter. I was in heaven and lingered over every glorious spoonful.
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Editor’s Choice: The Fall Edition Featuring Belles on Location in Italy for Real
A Belles Trip happened last week… … and before then I didn’t know much of anything about Domodossola, Italy. Now I can pretty much drive to and from there blindfolded ... Read more
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True Gelato Love Stories: 4,000 Miles for Gelato
Will travel for artisan gelato: Yet another documented case of falling head over heels in gelato love with one of Italy’s national treasures I once drove four hours to attend ... Read more
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Bra, Italy: The City of Raw Meat
Bra, Italy, in the raw I’ll try anything once. Then I’ll try it again, and if I don’t like it I’ll try it a third time just to be sure. ... Read more
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Lake Maggiore’s Isola Bella: Italian Island Of Beauty
Lake Maggiore's Isola Bella: Gardens and an Italian Island of Beauty, Whimsy and... you fill in the blank
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Italian Lake Orta: Silence, Color and Architecture
Exploring Lake Orta: the quiet Italian lake Except for an occasional rattle of pan and muffled cacophony of voices coming from the kitchen of Orta San Giulio’s fine restaurants, there ... Read more
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Iris Origo & Tales Of 20th Century Tuscany
A woman who lived under the Tuscan sun in the early 1900s The villa and beautiful gardens at La Foce in Tuscany. An Italian nobleman for a husband. The stuff ... Read more