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Women with Fish

Fish Stick: Devon Aoki in agent provocateur, 1998

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Mo, my mother, around 1952. She sure could cook. Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Orange Flower Water Here’s another excerpt from ‘The Making of an Italian Cook’, a memoir I’ve been working on. “We’re completely out of pepper flakes?,” Dick, my father, would say, to no one in particular, while shaking an empty little plastic jar. Shit, [...]

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Women with Fish

Man and Women by Eikoh Hosoe, 1960

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Italian Food Poem

Italian Food A poem by Shel Silverstein Oh, how I love Italian food. I eat it all the time, Not just ’cause how good it tastes But ’cause how good it rhymes. Minestrone, cannelloni, Macaroni, rigatoni, Spaghettini, scallopini, Escarole, braciole, Insalata, cremolata, manicotti, Marinara, carbonara, Shrimp francese, Bolognese, Ravioli, mostaccioli, Mozzarella, tagliatelle, Fried zucchini, rollatini, [...]

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Women with Fish

A woman staring at a fish tank by Henri Matisse

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Mo, center, with neighbors, having a smoke and Strega Festa Here’s another little section from ‘The Making of an Italian Cook’, a book of essays I’ve been working on for a few months. I’ve already posted two other short sections. They’re all still a little rough, but I just thought I’d run pieces of this [...]

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Women with Fish

Woman Fish, by Oleksiy Fedorenko (2002). It’s been a while, and I was missing “Women with Fish,” so here you go.

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Hello fellow Italian food fanatics, I have a new feature on my blog. It’s called ‘The Italian Recipe Exchange’. If you’ve ever wanted your own favorite Italian recipe posted and up for the world to see, you might want to click  ‘The Italian Recipe Exchange’ button on my home page and read all about it.

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Me eating spaghetti with Patty Ianicelli’s (my father’s cousin) boys. Rye, New York,  around 1960. Here’s the prologue from ‘The Making of an Italian Cook’, a work in progress. Hope you like it. The book is progressing well, a little shaky in parts, but I’ll iron that out in time. The Making of an Italian [...]

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Still life with tomatoes and green beans, by Ashley Baldwin-Smith. Recipe: String Bean Salad with Shallots, Almonds, and Thyme My previous post, a recipe for sautéed shrimp with Sambuca, included a photo of a whole dinner spread. In the photo there was a string bean salad. It must have looked kind of intriguing, for a [...]

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