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Beets with Walnut Rosemary Vinaigrette and Pepato

Posted in Skinny Guinea on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Formanova beets at the Union Square Greenmarket. Recipe: Beets with Walnut Rosemary Vinaigrette and Pepato While sweating through the Greenmarket the other day, I found myself incredibly attracted to some bunches of beets that looked just like fat red hot dogs. What will these lonely farmers come up with next? Well, I immediately thought, those [...]

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Women with Fish

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

A lady with a nice looking salmon steak, by Vincenzo Campi (1536-1591).

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Carrots with Cumin, Olives, and Basil

Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Recipe: Carrots with Cumin, Olives, and Basil There is a Moroccan dish of carrots seasoned with cumin and lemon that I’ve never liked. Somehow the combination tastes harsh to me. I do like the idea of cumin with carrots, though, and I’ve always wanted to create a more Southern Italian, I suppose Sicilian-inspired, rendition of [...]

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String Beans with Pancetta and Lemon Breadcrumbs

Posted in Skinny Guinea on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Recipe: String Beans with Pancetta and Lemon Breadcrumbs Have you ever noticed how awful supermarket string beans are? What kind of question is that, you’re probably asking yourself, since they’re usually so obviously dry, bitter, woody, faded, and starched over? But somehow I got used to them. That’s really sad. I needed the Greenmarket to [...]

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Summer Potatoes, Octopus, and Flowering Thyme

Posted in Skinny Guinea on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Recipe: Warm Potato Salad with Grilled Octopus and Flowering Thyme Sometimes on an oppressively hot Manhattan evening there’s nothing I like better than closing all the windows, jacking up the AC, throwing on a Chinatown bathrobe and lighting a cigarette (if I’m feeling tawdry), opening a bottle of red wine (a fresh, unoaked Barbera Castello [...]

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La Cucina Povera and Stuffed Zucchini

Posted in Skinny Guinea on July 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Castelfranco in Miscano, home of my grandparents, a classic cucina povera town (note the taralli strung around the base of the Virgin). Recipe: Round Zucchini Stuffed with Farro, Garlic Sausage, and Savory, Served with a Cherry Tomato Sauce My taste in food tends toward la cucina povera, the traditional cooking of Italy’s less well-heeled. This [...]

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Women with Fish

Posted in Women with Fish on July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Women drying fish in India.

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Chicken Salad with Radicchio, Pine Nuts, and Caper Berries

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

Recipe: Chicken Salad with Radicchio, Pine Nuts, and Caper Berries When I’m stuck in the city on a summer weekend, I want to cook food that’s  appropriate for an outdoor barbecue or a picnic, just to feel a semblance of summer freedom and fun. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, depending on how much I [...]

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Fettuccine with Fresh Peas, Lemon, and Mint

Posted in Skinny Guinea on July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

John Keats, with a pretty cat friend, at the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Recipe: Fettuccine with Fresh Peas, Lemon, and Mint A friend’s 16-year old-daughter is soon leaving for a six-week art history program in Rome. This has gotten me thinking about a lot of things, mainly when the hell am I going to get [...]

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