Pier Paolo Pasolini and Anna Magnani step out. Try working off those excess Thanksgiving calories with a celebratory dance. (Whose shoe is that? Gina Lollobrigida’s?) Happy Thanksgiving to you from Skinny Guinea.
Archive for November, 2008
A Thanksgiving Dance
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Give Thanks for Parmigiano Reggiano
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recipe: Endive Baked with Marsala and Parmigiano Reggiano Thanksgiving is not my favorite food holiday. Words that for me describe its tastes are mushy, sweet, and dry. I think the perfect Thanksgiving dinner would be a big piece of crisp turkey skin and a salad drizzled with gravy. Good cheese would improve things. In fact, [...]
Dreaming of Pizza di Scarola
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »
A dreamlike egg wash. Recipe: Pizza di Scarola with Black Olives and Raschera Many of my dreams involve food preparation. I suppose that’s only natural for someone who cooks as much as I do. The dreams are sometimes truly horrible. A recurring theme is putting a duck or a rabbit in the oven and then [...]
DiPalo Now Has a Website
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Happy customers at DiPalo’ in Little Italy, New York. I don’t know if it happens to you, but often when I purchase Gorgonzola, even in fancy Manhattan shops, it’s overripe, mushy and ammonia-stinking. That’s because these days you almost always have to buy cheese with your eyes, not your nose. You’re presented with precut, plastic-wrapped [...]
Preserved Tuna Will Keep You Safe
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
My home-preserved tuna in olive oil. Recipes: My Preserved Tuna Preserved Tuna with Cannellini Beans, Celery, and Sage Cold weather makes me and many cooks I know want to preserve food for storage, despite having no actual need to do so. Every year around early November I click into Southern Italian farmhouse mode and drag [...]
My Black Rice Dream
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Silvana Mangano and friends in their fetching rice picker outfits in the film Riso Amaro. Recipe: Black Rice with Shrimp, Guanciale, and Rosemary About a week ago I had a very frustrating dream. I was trying to scoop up buckets of something that looked like black pebbles, but I couldn’t get it into my bucket. [...]
A Limoncello Martini for Election Day
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Chairman, possibly not on Election Day. I’ve always felt it best to vote on an empty stomach. It makes me feel feisty. But this year I fear the lines will be long, hours may pass, and my feistiness may turn to impatience and then rage. That’s not good. My solution will be the before-voting [...]
Young Wine and Chestnuts for All Saints’ Day
Posted in Skinny Guinea on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The maid who became a saint in Pasolini’s Teorema. Tomorrow is All Saints’ Day, or Ognissanti, as it’s called in Italy. It honors all the holy departed (it first took off around the time the church came to have more saints than there were days in the year to assign to them). It’s an important [...]
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