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Cotechino con lenticchieNo Italian New Year's celebration would be complete without this dish of a delicious pork sausage served with lentils. New Year's Eve for Italians—like so many other holidays—is marked by a large, festive meal, often an elegant seafood dinner, called the cenone di San Silvestro or cenone di Capodanno, the word 'cenone' being Italian… |
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The ABCs of RisottoRisotto is one of my favorite things to make, and one of the most versatile of dishes. You can use almost anything--meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables and even fruit--to flavor a risotto. In the past few weeks, I've made four kinds of risotto: a risotto with bacon and belgian endive, one with ham and asparagus, one with red pepper and,… |
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Warm Octopus w. Potato and ParsleyThis is one of my favourite things year round, served lukewarm in winter or at room temperature in summer. Octopus meat is beautifully tender when properly cooked. It has a very mild sweet-savoury flavour which some compare to chicken and some to squid though neither comparison really stands up in my view. Perhaps crab or scallop… |
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Bologna la grassa!
This group is dedicated to the cuisine of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna, which many say is the true culinary capital of Italy. If you like tortellini, tagliatelle, lasagne alla bolognese, cappellacci, passatelli, bollito misto, cotechino e zampone, prosciutto di parma, mortadella and the world-famous parmesan cheese, this group is for you.
