A trip to Torino with my dad, restaurant suggestions and all.
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Autumn, in a bowl, served up with a little Parmesan cheese and croutons on top.
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Pure comfort food — creamy rice, earthy mushrooms, and a shower of freshly grated Parmesan.
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As much as I love distinctly Italian taralli and pizza bianca, there is perhaps no other snack that is more nostalgic, more familiar, or more delicious to me than the classic pretzel.
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Bell peppers stuffed with a mixture of beef, sausage, cheese, and breadcrumbs — perfect fare for when the summer is fading in to the Fall.
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Straight from Tuscany, schiacciata con l’'uva is a fluffy bread topped with juicy grapes, fragrant cinnamon, and lots of sugar.
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Intensely chocolate-y, super fudgey, held together with a heap of crunchy almonds, a little orange scented, and beautiful with a shower of powdered sugar.
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Here we've got a tantalizing mix of crunchy, salty pretzels, toasty, buttery caramel, crisp pecans, and a good layer of bittersweet chocolate. They mix salty with sweet and are therefore inevitably addictive, magical, and guaranteed to disappear in no time.
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A salad that is a glorious mix of different textures, flavors, and temperatures — juicy sweet tomatoes and peaches, crisp refreshing cucumber, plus dreamy mozzarella di bufala and the star of the show, cubes of crispy, golden brown eggplant.
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A recap of summer 2018 in my home state of Rhode Island.
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One of the (many) things I learned when I first moved to Italy was that in the month of August, everything slows down, shuts down, and eventually…
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A crumble with a topping reminiscent of an oatmeal cookie, crisp and crunchy and spiced with cinnamon, with a good dose of buttery pecans throughout, all heaped a top a pile of at-their-peak super-sweet and very juicy nectarines and blueberries.
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Here the overall tomato-ness of our tomatoes is intensified and concentrated with a little roasting, the perfect vehicle for the filling, or rather: a delightful mix of sharp-salty Parmesan, spicy assertive garlic, and summery basil, all held together with a little bread and a good bit of tomato for an extra tomato punch.
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Butterscotch sauce that is addictive, buttery and brown sugar-y with a warm toasty-ness to it, the whole thing woken up with a hit of salt and rounded out with a dab of vanilla, perfect over a scoop (or two) of ice cream.
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A riff on the classic basil, pine nut, and Parmesan pesto, one where we keep the summer-y basil, but swap the pine nuts for almonds and exclude the Parmesan all together, leaving it to the citrus to pack the flavor punch; interestingly enough, a little hot water is whisked into the pesto to give it a smoother, richer consistency.
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A couple of days in one of my favorite cities in the whole world.
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A few suggestions on what to do when visiting the Monti neighborhood of Rome!
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Smooth, refreshing coffee cream —typical of the Italian bar — perfect on a hot day.
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Think of this as carbonara's distant, vegetarian cousin. Still present is the ever-classic spaghetti, lots of freshly ground black pepper, and the addition of a beaten egg that is cooked quickly with the heat of the pasta to form a sauce -- from there, however, we swerve off the beaten path into a different sort of pasta dish, one where vegetables take the place of traditional guanciale, the more approachable, familiar Parmesan nudges the classic Pecorino out of the race, and there's the addition of a little bright basil.
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