Recipes and Stories

First Courses Recipes and Stories

DAVE MADE ME……

…..Discombobulated, when I saw him six years after we met the first time. This is a photo of him in 2012. I also posted something about our cooking together: http://gigliocooking.blogspot.it/2012/08/every-day-someone-special-knocks-at-my.html
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

A PRETTY RIBOLLITA

This is the “Cavolo Nero”, litterally “Black Cabbage”. It is a variety of Kale. With its “Pretty” and distinct color points out the other “greens” in the garden. From a
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

TORTELLINI ALLA NORMA

Una Siciliana con l’animo tedesco che fa i tortellini non può fare altrimenti che un ripieno di melanzana. Tortellini di melanzana pura, salsa di pomodorini confit, spuma di ricotta salata,
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Second Courses Recipes and Stories

THE DETAILED TALE OF THE TAIL

Lobster & Blueberry sauce: where Tuscany meets Maine I see many points of contact between Mount Desert and the place where I was born in Tuscany. The place is an
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

THE FLU IS BACK…..

How could it not be?… this crazy weather, the saying runs… …..the global warming… We have a remedy : something in common between western Grandmothers and Chinese belief: the Chicken
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

A PLEASANT MEMORY

The color of the writing is turquoise, becouse turquoise was the color of the table clothes at the Restaurant Le Tamerici. The Restaurant Le Tamerici was sold at the beginning of 1997,
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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.