Cuisine & Philosophy

Cuisine & Philosophy

SCHOOL OF MYCOLOGY ………. ON THE FIELD

Mushrooms generally have a cap and a stem. Some have the volva, i.e. an envelope that protects them until they reach maturity – as in the case of the ovolo
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Cuisine & Philosophy

TRIBUTE TO JUNE BELLAMY

There is no much that I can say about her, different that all what has been said. Unfortunately I didn’t know her well. I didn’t know even about her death,
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Cuisine & Philosophy

COOKING IS COORDINATION

Here I want to propose some posts from my old blog: http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2015/11/cooking-is.html COOKING MEANS ….COORDINATION While one hand is rolling hard the crank, coordinating the other one to welcome the layer of
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Cuisine & Philosophy

PSYCO-COOKING-LAB

TV, magazines, internet: Cuisine is everywhere Yet people – you can also investigate the reasons, which are many and varied – heritage, rejection of the traditional female role, stressful life,
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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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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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Cuisine & Philosophy

ITALIAN CUISINE DOES NOT EXIST

Today the term “fusion” is used as if the “syncretized” cuisine were a new fact. The Cuisine is the most concrete expression of human communication. As such, it is affected
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YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CHEF WHEN:

You find – anyways –  space in the refrigerator. You know the temperature of the sugar by …..listening to it You can represent the motion of the earth around the
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Cuisine & Philosophy

MY MON SAYS THAT……LA MIA MAMMA DICE CHE

I want to propose again an article of some years ago: http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2013/12/la-mia-mamma-dice-che.html Her words are simple, but they enclose the Truth of the Cuisine. “Cooking means that…… …when, then you
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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.