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Desserts Recipes and Stories

LICORICE MOUSSE

This is the Licorice Mousse prepared for a dinner at Sir Blake’s house. Sir Blake is the founder of Friendly’s ice cream chain. After the success of this dessert obtained
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Starters Recipes and Stories

CHERRY, STONE, CLAMS, MUSSELS

Here in Maine, you can find sour cherries on sale. They sell sour cherries at the farmers market as well as along the road. The only other place where I
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Events & Special Programs

THE OLIVE HARVEST

I open the window and …. look how the day has began! With a weather like this, don’t you want to go and help Giuseppino? This is the company Sapori
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

COFFEE

Molly woke up with the best intentions: just being kind with the new room mates. They met a couple of days before, in the waiting space of a rental agency.
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Cuisine & Philosophy

THE BLACKBIRD

We rarely have control over things, or alone over Nature. We have also deceived ourselves that we humans are the only intelligent animal, capable of emotions and reactions. Bah… Spring:
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Desserts Recipes and Stories

THE CALL OF THE SAD GRAPES

To tell the truth, it’s not that I had this great desire to start kneading or even separating the stalk from grapes . But these clusters hanging in an expectation
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Love for Food

MUSHROOMS AND CHICORY

You don’t come back empty-handed from a walk in the countryside. Now it’s time for Corbezzole,the berries from teh strawberry tree (arbutus), with which to make jams. It is time
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Events & Special Programs

THE HILLS OF THE RICOTTA

The cold started again and the production of ricotta started again….as well. There is none like this one here. We are on the Sienese hills, the “Crete”. The village is
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Cuisine & Philosophy

COOKING DEEP METHODS

WAITING cooking means “biological transformation of the nutrients” in most of cases by the action of the heat, sometimes by the mechanic movement, sometime by the action of chemical agents,
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Marcella Ansaldo

Native of Giglio Island, Marcella has founded and directs the school GiglioCooking in Florence, with simpathy, passion and energy.