la crostata col fichi secchi: dried fig tart
Her tiny features appear in my cameras viewfinder as [...]
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01, 2012
24
12, 2011
buon natale da Lecce, Italia
.......the Christmas lights in Lecce, Italia. [...]
20
12, 2011
li lampascioni: hyacinth bulbs
It used to be that when students booked, I'd ask [...]
13
12, 2011
la cicoria lessa: boiled chicory
'So tell me, what is the biggest surprise about your [...]
3
11, 2011
La Cotognata (Quince Paste, Salento-Style)
Come autumn time here in the Salento, a number [...]
25
10, 2011
eating the calendar: our tomato sauce, last year, this year and the next
'E mo' si balla belle mie', I say to the [...]
15
09, 2011
lu ranu stumpatu al vincotto (wheat berries with reduced grape must)
Hemingway is often credited with the phrase, Dessert is for [...]
10
08, 2011
la capunata (detto ‘la cialda pugliese): a barley-bread based salad
Try it sometime. Next time folks ask what you do [...]
31
01, 2011
i vini dolci pugliesi: the sweet wines of puglia
My mouth water continued to water, but I couldn't seem to swallow fast enough. I looked over at Annarita, who had already bitten through her bottom lip and seemed content on swallowing her own chin. 'If the next speaker says anything other than, 'Mo' ragà, si scende!' ('Alright boys, let's head down') I'm going to kill him with my thumb', she said, her eyes scanning over the shoulders up to the podium, calculating, I think, how long she'd have before they'd pull her off.
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01, 2011
paternoster: new world, old world and where you find yourself
It couldn't be prettier, this mountain. For the longest [...]
