Archive for May 2008

Pesto adds a punch to plain pastas - Augusta Chronicle (subscription)

Pesto adds a punch to plain pastas
Augusta Chronicle (subscription), GA - 3 hours ago
Happily, there is a shortcut, and it comes from Marcella Hazan, a doyenne of Italian cooking. “Blender pesto is so good we should enjoy it with a clear

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Grill twists: Mario Batali brings Italian flavors to an American way … - Monterey County Herald

Do Americans really need advice from Italy on how to grill? Well, yeah, according to Mario Batali, the American chef who has built an empire as one of this country’s masters of Italian cooking, with seven New York restaurants and spots in Vegas and L …

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Mario at the grill - Norwalk Hour

Well, yeah, according to Mario Batali, the American chef who has built an empire as one of this country’s masters of Italian cooking, with seven New York restaurants and spots in Vegas and L.A., television shows, and six cookbooks, including his …

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Home Cooking Profile: Italian cuisine in his blood - Press-Enterprise

Home Cooking Profile: Italian cuisine in his blood
Press-Enterprise, CA - 39 minutes ago
By ELIZABETH HAN As the child of Sicilian parents, Orefice said, he enjoyed home-cooked Italian staples like pasta for family meals.

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Win a copy of One Pot Italian Cooking - Inside Toronto


Inside Toronto
Win a copy of One Pot Italian Cooking
Inside Toronto, Canada - 8 hours ago
To enter The Italian Cooking contest, people must send in their names, complete addresses, daytime telephone numbers and the answer to this skill-testing

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Cookie grandma - Morris County Daily Record

Jean McGuinness’ ricotta cookies are known far and wide — at least as far and wide as Annapolis, Md., New London, Conn., and Austin, Texas. Grandsons, Daniel Leahey, a 2007 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who is in the Texas University …

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Top billing - Sydney Morning Herald


Sydney Morning Herald
Top billing
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 hours ago
The remainder of the menu is a tour de force of rustic, reassuring Italian cooking, from milk-braised veal shank with mash ($28) to pasta fagioli ($15),

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Flowers: Q&A - Glasgow Sunday Mail

Flowers: Q&A
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 6 hours ago
oregano (green or variegated leaves and popular in Italian cooking), parsley (a beautiful bright green plant with a multitude of uses, not least with

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Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a … - AlterNet

Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a
AlterNet, CA - May 24, 2008
For instance, in Lucky Jim, Amis Senior rails against Italian cooking, denouncing olive oil at some length as a vile “butter substitute.

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Italian Mainstay That’s True to Its Roots - New York Times

Italian Mainstay That’s True to Its Roots
New York Times, United States - 19 minutes ago
The chef, Daniel Montoya, 49, learned to cook in his mother’s casual restaurant in his native Lima, but he mastered high-powered Italian cooking in the

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