Archive for August 22nd, 2008

What Manolo is…

I read Manolo because I am not yet tired of people who refer to themselves in the third person. Every week he posts what he is reading, doing, thinking, whatever. I never read it. But the idea is appealing.

What I am doing is preserving the absolutely insane amount of fruit and produce of this season. I plan to drag some exemplary products outside eventually and photograph them. Most of what I am doing is not plain vanilla preserving because I need to amuse myself, but a quirk here and a tug there and it is something different. I am using 4 Italian magazines on the subject and 2 English books. The variety of what you can do is astounding, and even if you take away all the things for which I do not have the ingredients, the equipment or the containers, it is still more than I will probably do in all my life.

So whatever Manolo is doing, Umbria is putting it up for the winter.

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Friday: wine, food and Communist fish

Coda di rospo

Want to know what that is? It’s something delicious that is also the favorite dish of the two top Italian Communists. Go and see what Alex and I have cooked up this week to entertain you.

There are three great recipes this week.

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