Cannolis minus all the calories. When you need a little something sweet and somehow don’t see a whole tray of cannolis fitting into your diet plan, Italy still has a lot to offer you. A neurotic little trick of mine is to eat something extremely small but tooth-achingly sweet to curb my craving. It almost [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Need a Little Something Sweet?
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spiedini, Long and Lean
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Italian beauty on a stick. Recipes: Gremolata Chickpea Salad Shrimp and Mushroom Spiedini with Rosemary and Lemon My feeling about spiedini, Italian-style kebabs, is that since they’re long and lean, eating them will make me long and lean. Well, lean maybe, but long might be more problematic, since I’m only five-foot-one, and I’m likely to [...]
Something to Strive For
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anna Magnani in The Golden Coach, the film by Jean Renoir. She’s my ideal. Not too fat, not too skinny. Never overly concerned about her ever-enlarging eye bags. A little tense, but she knows how to have fun. Loves to eat and drink. At home at a raucous party or in a bomb shelter. I [...]
My Easter Pastiera
Posted in Skinny Guinea, tagged My Easter Pastiera on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The pastiera I baked for today’s dinner. I change my recipe every year. This time around I added orange-flower water, cinnamon, vanilla, lemon zest, and, instead of the various kinds of candied fruit that are traditional, two heaping tablespoons of bitter-orange marmalade, chopped up. This beautiful smelling thing is now cooling and waiting to be [...]
Pensive and Sleek: Living La Dolce Vita
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anouk Aimée takes a break from the high life. Recipe: Chicken Liver Crostini with Fennel and Celery Salad I’ve often found that an old photo, something a friend is wearing, or even a hangover can inspire a desire for a particular flavor, I suppose by triggering off a freewheeling association from my past where that [...]
To Hell with the Diet. Happy Easter.
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Easter-egg bread at Rocco’s Pastry Shop on Bleecker Street. Recipe: Asparagus with Warm Orange Oil Easter for the lapsed Catholic is a hollow affair. If it weren’t for the huge amounts of food and chocolate bunnies, tons of relatives and friends, prosecco, and Chianti, it would be meaningless. Even when I was a child, it [...]
Can Lack of Sleep Make You Fat?
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Does he have too much on his mind? According to a report on this week’s 60 Minutes, when you don’t get enough sleep your brain starts sending out messages that you should start eating. Lack of sleep makes us hungry. Evidently sleep deprivation causes a drop in our levels of leptin, the hormone that tells [...]
Palate Fatigue, Italian Style
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Infuse your food with big flavor, and you’ll eat less. Recipe: Shellfish cacciucco with guanciale and farro. One thing I love about Italian cooking is its melding of bold and gentle flavors-ricotta crostini with a strip of salty anchovy; braised chicken sharpened with strong lemon; pork chops with vinegar peppers. I keep such alluring juxtapositions [...]
It’s Almost Swimsuit Season
Posted in Skinny Guinea on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Silvana Mangano, Giada DeLaurentiis’s gorgeous Nonna, at her swimsuit best. Do we have to start thinking about this already? Well, if you want to look svelte and lovely on the beach or on your roof, it might not be a bad idea. I know you’ve all been doing your Lenten best in the self-sacrifice department, [...]
Sticking to Your Italian Diet on Waverly Place
Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chianti at Morandi. If you can handle big noise, Tuscany-by-way-of-Disneyland décor (featuring walls of Chianti basket bottles that they serve carafe wines in), and a rambunctious (and very tall) crowd (including the designer Betsey Johnson on my last visit, but she’s not so tall), Morandi, Keith McNally’s year-old restaurant in the West Village, is worth [...]
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