Essence of anchovy in a bottle. If you like anchovies (and who reading my site doesn’t?), you’ll love the elegant, stinky syrup called colatura. It’s made from the runoff from the anchovy salting process, which I guess doesn’t sound particularly elegant, but believe me this stuff is suave. When anchovies are salted for curing, they’re [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Nettuno Colatura
Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on December 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Lost Recipes Found: Sweet Lasagna for Christmas Eve
Posted in Lost Recipes Found on December 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A lost lasagna revived. Recipe: Sweet Christmas Eve Lasagna Dear Erica, My father was born in Barile, Provincia di Potenza, Basilicata. His father was from Bari. My grandmother and my mother always made their lasagna with eggs mixed in the ricotta, and with sugar and cinnamon. We ate this with the meatballs layered in between, [...]
Natalia Ravidà’s Wonderful New Sicilian Cookbook
Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had the good fortune to be able visit Natalia Ravidà and several generations of her family several years ago when I took a trip to Sicily. I was a huge fan of her family’s estate-bottled extra-virgin olive oil. The exquisite, lush oil had been produced on the family estate, in Menfi, in southwestern Sicily, [...]
Lost Recipes Found: Victoria’s Christmas Cookies from Abruzzo
Posted in Lost Recipes Found on December 5, 2007 | 19 Comments »
Cavicionetti all’Abruzzese. Recipe: Cavicionetti all’Abruzzese Dear Erica, I am a big fan of your books, and having discovered your wonderful “Lost Recipes Found” feature, I decided to see if you could help me out. I spent a few years in Abruzzo about 14 years ago. Around Christmas, I recall, a friend of my host mother [...]
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