When gluttony meets restraint, there’s always brown rice. We are on the threshold of tomato time in Michigan. It’s hard to be patient. At the local farmers market they will have both red and gold cherry tomatoes (what the Italians call pendolini) and Early Girls and Big Boys bursting with flavor. You take the Girls…More
Monthly Archives: May 2017
A Sweet and Tangy Spaghetti–a dish that’s always great
How to make a fast dish of pasta that’s always great? A number of years ago I taught a cooking class I called “ten sauces, ten pastas, ten wines.” The animating idea was to become a good match-maker. Some sauces need a particular form of pasta. Meat sauces, for example, instead of spaghetti or linguini…More
Coffee Me
Where to find a good espresso in Italy? Everywhere, of course. But what is it about train stations in Italy and coffee? Train station bars have the best coffee ever. You order at the cashier, present your receipt at the bar, and get served coffee that, well, just makes you want to travel by train,…More
Two Stops in Bologna–morning wine, then lunch
Technically this wine bar is on Via Marsala. But the other crossroad is Via Malcontenti, which tells me this is the place where I want to be.More
Two Restaurants in Romagna
“This is not hunger,” my wife says. We are bent over two dishes of pasta that are, well, a religious experience. She ordered the ravioli burro e salvia; I have cappelletti with ragu. We’ve come for lunch, and we go away not satisfied so much as transported.More