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Fennel and Fava Salad with Piacentinu Cheese

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recipe: Fennel and Fava Salad with Piacentinu Cheese You know how you can discover a new food and it fascinates you even before you taste it? Bresaola was one of those foods for me. Cardoons were another. Piacentinu is a third. Piacentinu is a cheese I discovered during my first trip to Sicily, about 12 [...]

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Women with Fish

Posted in Women with Fish on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lulu Peyraud, a Provençal cook, with traditional cork fish paniers, 1968.

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Roast Chicken with Leeks, Thyme, and Black Olives

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Cook, by Pieter  Aertsen (1508-1575). Recipe: Roast Chicken with Leeks, Thyme, and Black Olives I never had roast chicken when I was a kid. We had chicken alla cacciatora, chicken with lemon and garlic, or we barbecued chicken, lots of it, all summer. The idea of the perfect still-life whole roast chicken came later [...]

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Scampi with Almonds, Mint, and Lemon

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recipe: Scampi with Almonds, Mint, and Lemon I went out to dinner a lot as a child, mostly to Italian places in Nassau County, Long Island, and in Manhattan (the City, as we called it). My father was a golf pro, which meant he had erratic hours, especially in warm weather, so dinner at home [...]

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Penette with Pistachio and Almond Pesto

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Eat Smart in Sicily, by Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce, published by Ginkgo Press in 2008. Recipe: Penette con Pesto di Pistacchio e Mandorle Considering the size of my apartment, I have to say my collection of Italian cookbooks is almost out of control. But whenever I try thinning it out, I find there’s a [...]

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Women with Fish

Posted in Women with Fish on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Julia Child and a very large monkfish. Here’s a new feature on Skinny Guinea: “Women with Fish.” It will be an ongoing series of photos of anything that can be considered “Women with Fish.”  We will see how it develops as time goes by. If you have any photo you’d like to see in it, [...]

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Roast Lamb with Ricotta and Caper Pesto

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A picnic from your wildest dreams, by Giovanna Garzoni. Recipe: Roast Lamb Sandwich with Ricotta and Caper Pesto Pasquetta sounds wonderful to me. That’s Easter Monday, when Italians pack up a picnic lunch and head to the countryside to spread it all out under the Italian sun. We generally don’t have the weather for a [...]

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Roman Easter Bread

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Pier Paolo Pasolini relaxes with Jesus between takes while filming The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Recipe: Torta Salata Pasquale The earthquake in the Abruzzo on Monday made me terribly sad. It is a beautiful region. Many friends of mine have family ties to the area, east of Rome. When I was working on my [...]

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A Roman Easter

Posted in Skinny Guinea on April 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Elsa Martinelli, il Colosseo, and a fluffy white kitty. Recipe: Easter Eggs with Asparagus, Guanciale, and Pecorino Easter in Rome—what a lovely fantasy. It sounds grand and enveloping, old-world Catholic, except that if you’re a tourist and don’t have anyone to freeload off of, you’ll discover that most of the restaurants are closed, and you’ll [...]

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