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HEALTH IN BLACK

What is that attracts in the black?  Is Black attractive…because it is associated with disease?Because of the misterious fear of poison?Or because  of challenge to the night, the dark, the death..?Just
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Giglio Island

GIGLIO ISLAND ON A MAGAZINE IN USA

Please, don’t miss to read it https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/travel/article216053650.html
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Second Courses Recipes and Stories

LA FRITTATA DI PUZZOLE

Calvatia Excipuliformis e Calvatia Utriformis sono i loro nomi scientifici.Effettivamente ricordano la….calvizie. Si tratta di funghi bianchi con la superficie ruvida, non particolarmente attraenti. Anzi…. danno poco l’idea di qualcosa
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Events & Special Programs

TRUE HONEY

No list of the ingredients on the label. Honey is made of…. honey. As well as many Italian products, honey is made by only one ingredient. No additives, colorants, thickeners,
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Desserts Recipes and Stories

QUINCE THE QUEEN

Almost impossible to eat raw, they must be peeled and cut in pieces to make the deliciuos “Cotognata”. Add about 30% of their weigh of sugar and let cook on
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About Marcella

TASTE OF FALL

After “Taste of Summer”: http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2018/05/taste-of-summer.html… inevitable  here it comes the taste of Fall. Ingredients of this seasonal flavor are: – The New Red Wine, fresh and still crispy, slightly sweet.
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School & Cooking Friends

THE LESSON OF MAMA JANE

This face espression tells something about the moments I spent together this wonderful family: parents, Mama Jane & Randy, theirĀ  three soons and their wives. These pictures came with these
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School & Cooking Friends

THE MARKET TOUR AND THE COOKING CLASS OF THE NOBLES FAMILY

Informative and fun tour of the market in the morning…. …..with tasting of the excellence of the Italian food production, held by Paola “the Big Food Mind of the Market”,….
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

FRESH AND DRY PASTA: WHICH SAUCE IS THE BEST FOR EACH TYPE?

We enter here a spiny matter, with a lot of involvements with personal memories and acquired taste. I would never dress Penne Pasta (short pasta) with clams: clams go with
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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.