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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Carrots with Cumin, Olives, and Basil
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, Diego Velázquez, 1620.
Lasagna for Christmas Eve
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Recipe: Lasagna with Basil Walnut Pesto and Besciamella When I was a junior high school student on Long Island many centuries ago, there still existed a class called home ec, something all the girls had to take, a requirement that by then no one took very seriously. I believe I took it the last year [...]
A Thanksgiving Dance
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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.
Olive Oil for Weight Loss?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Italian olive oil for sale in Manhattan around 1930. I just read an article that says that the good fat found in olive oil may provide one of the keys to appetite control and weight loss. Could it be true, fattening old olive oil? Could be. It seems that oleic acid, a kind of monosaturated [...]
A Grill for San Lorenzo
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The iron stove that allegedly grilled San Lorenzo, on view in Rome. Recipe: Agnello alla Scottadito with Fresh Mint and Garlic Vinaigrette It’s not a huge holiday in America, but lest we forget, August 10 is the feast day of San Lorenzo of Rome. Born in 225, died August 10, 258, in the beautiful but [...]
The Pasta Diet of the Future
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A copy of La Cucina Futurista. In 1932 the always fun-loving Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurist party, an art, literature, and political movement full of arty Fascists, published The Futurist Cookbook (La Cucina Futurista). Having had enough of the Italian people’s complacent outlook on life and embarrassing military performance, he zeroed right [...]
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