Category: Italy

Pasta with Garlic, Olive Oil, and Parsley or Aglio e Olio

Pasta with Garlic, Olive Oil, and Parsley or Aglio e Olio

Pasta with Garlic, Olive Oil, and Parsley or Aglio e Olio As a young chap, I lived with my grandparents in the typical “Everyone Loves Raymond” environment; that is to say, my parents lived on the second floor apartment of a two family home while my grandparents occupied the first floor apartment.  On most Saturday afternoons I would wander down […]

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Mary Palmer’s Cucina Di Calabria

I can’t say enough about Mary Palmer’s excellent cookbook, “Cucina Di Calabria” which, in an elegant manner, documents the many simple dishes of the most southern province of Italy (at least on the mainland).  Palmer’s recipes, like all Italian cookbooks published for a US audience, are a bit more on the “Italian-American” side, but she does hold true to many longstanding Calabrian […]

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