Archive for July, 2011

Jul 29 2011

Recipe: Pasta e fagioli all’isolana

Categorized under Food and Drink,Recipes

Here is the recipe I mentioned a few days ago. It’s a fairly quick and hearty one-pot meal that I’ve adapted from a classic recipe I found in the October 1989 issue of La Cucina Italiana. It’s a bit unusual in that the pasta is cooked in the pot along with the sauce, which if [...]

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Jul 26 2011

La (Mia) Cvcina Italiana

Categorized under Food and Drink,Moi

A rather unusual gift arrived chez moi last weekend; a stack of La Cucina Italiana food magazines from the late 1980s and 1990s, 21 copies in all. They weigh a ton, as they’re printed on heavy stock in that old fashioned way, and they’re full of articles, ads, color photographs, and most importantly, recipes. There’s [...]

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