Slow Food
Farinata
One of my favorite meals in Torino during Terra Madre 2010 was an impromptu trip to a local pizza joint known for its farinata.
Continue reading »Green Drink: Matcha Tea
Based on the blog posts I’ve been writing about coffee in Italy, you might be surprised to learnt that I’m really not a coffee drinker. I detoxed myself off of coffee back at the turn of the century (1999) and only drink it on rare occasions when I’m driving long distances. In the weeks before [...]
Continue reading »Cioccolata Calda
One afternoon while sipping my cappuccino at a nearby cafe, a delegate from Vermont introduced me to an amazing Italian drink: Cioccolata Calda. The translation is hot chocolate but it is nothing like the watery kind we drink in the US. Hot chocolate in Italy and many parts of Europe is thick, almost the consistency [...]
Continue reading »Back to the USA
After spending 10 days far away in a country that really knows how to do food right, I’ve headed back home. A 4am cab ride to the Torino airport in which I took a short flight to Rome airport. At the Rome airport, I thought it was time to have my last cappuccino in Italy. [...]
Continue reading »Eating Adventurously
Thirteen is a tough age. You’re no longer a little kid, but you’re not yet an adult either. We took our youngest daughter, thirteen, along with us on our Italy trip for a couple of reasons. One- to show her there is a big big world out there beyond suburban NY. Two- to give her [...]
Continue reading »Slow Cappuccino
After trying my best to sleep on the long flight from NY, I knew I’d need some caffeine for the last leg of the trip to Rome. I stopped on my way to my connecting flight at the Milan airport for a quick cappuccino. Unlike every other airport I’ve been to before, this coffee was [...]
Continue reading »Picky Eaters and Labelling
I recently became involved in an interesting online conversation about the word “picky eater” with some mommy bloggers. Christina Le Beau who has a blog, SpoonFed. wrote a recent post that makes the argument that labeling kids becomes a crutch for parents and sets up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Plus it minimizes the very real food [...]
Continue reading »Carlo Petrini: The Father of Slow Food
Once upon a time in the late 1980′s a man named Carlo Petrini organized a bold and powerful campaign against McDonalds. The fast food chain was planning to open a branch of the golden arches near the Spanish steps in Rome. Carlo and his pals brandished bowls of penne past as weapons of protest and [...]
Continue reading »The Race to Nowhere
Tonight, I attended a screening of this film that highlights the dark side of our over-achieving communities. I live in a highly competitive town where kids are under played and over scheduled. Most are tutored and just about everyone is on some sort of travel team for sports- regular ol’ AYSO soccer is just not [...]
Continue reading »Recipe: Super Slow Super Easy Chicken Stock
The three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, tie in nicely to my slow cooker chicken stock. Here’s the recipe along with info on my Slow Cooker Cookbooklet.
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