Italiano
Vegan names
The nomenclature of vegan dishes often recalls their meat-based "ancestors": vegan lasagna, vegan cheese, vegan egg salad etc...
And...
16
May
Tag Archives: cuisine
12
May
One panino, two panini
It is known that, in the English language, there are numerous Italian loanwords in the context of cooking.
Not only to indicate prop...
11
May
The best cities for traditional food
And here's another ranking published by the useful and interesting site TasteAtlas.
This time users were invited to vote for the cit...
09
May
Meat, cooking and connective tissue
What distinguishes a meat ideal for grilling from one that is more suitable for slow cooking?
Not everyone knows it, but the secret ...
08
May
Freezing and thawing. And not viceversa!
Have you ever wondered why you can't refreeze raw food after it has been defrosted?
The reasons are mainly two.
The first concern...
05
May
Chef’s hat
It is interesting how the universally recognized symbol to indicate the Chef is neither a plate of steaming food, nor pots or pans, nor...
04
May
The poor Alfredo
Some different types of Italian pasta.
Quite a nice map, right?
It was made by the fantastic and very useful Website TasteAtlas.
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12
Apr
Prehistoric meatballs
Meatballs are a common dish in a lot of different national or local cuisines.
Starting from the Italian polpette (forgive my chauvin...
06
Apr
The Turbot and the Caesar’s Palate
In his Satires, Juvenal tells a beautiful story that happened during the reign of terror established in Rome by the Emperor Domitian, w...
14
Mar
We owe our fork to Spaghetti!
Spaghetti was a great invention (no, Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!).
On the other hand, there's an invention that we owe to sp...
