Category: Food

I have several cookbooks by Giuliano Bugialli. He, along with Marcella Hazan are the probably the most respected authors of Italian Cookbooks. Like Marcella, Giuliano has written his books in English and directed them to the American market. I don’t think that either of them is well know in Italy and their books are not […]

Sometimes making errors in a language is a good way to learn words. If I use a word incorrectly then I have found that I learn both the correct word and the wrong word quite well – it really sticks in my mind. On one of my first trips to Italy when I knew very […]

I haven’t fixed these in years but the perfect opportunity presented itself. We were invited to a wedding of one of the dancer friends of my wife. Well, she’s my friend too but I’m not really a part of the dance community except by marriage. In any case part of the wedding was the request […]

The goddess of Italian cookbooks in the U.S. is Marcella Hazan. She really changed my life. I was living alone and eating, well, not very healthily. A gift of a paperback edition of her first book started me on the road of Italian food and cooking that broadened into the love of so many things […]