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The Wurst :)

September 18, 2008 by Italian Cooking · Leave a Comment 

Ask anyone here at the eCool compound where to go for a bit of low-brow comedy and a fun-filled expereience and they’ll send you to the aisles of your local Italian grocery store. The entertainments on offer are vast. You can spar with gladiatoric elderly women for control of the produce scale (in most Italian supermarkets you have to weigh and price your own produce before heading to the cash register); you can join in a tug of war over the last ragged bunch of carrots while presenting an

The New York Times Dining Wine section in 60 seconds: Boutique wheat, summer soup, raw plum sauce

September 10, 2008 by Italian Cooking · Leave a Comment 

Filed under: East Coast, Restaurants, Vegetables, Recipes, Newspapers, America, in sixty seconds, Summer, Fall Locally milled, boutique flour is a growing trend. Grande dame of Italian cookbooks Marcella Hazan has a new memoir. A classic Frank Bruni takedown of a restaurant that's more about seeing and being seen than the food. Eric Asimov writes about a radical California winery. The Minimalist does summer soup. An uncooked plum sauce is perfect for drizzling over pork tenderloin. Wi

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