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Category Archives: Basil
Liguria: Plotkin’s Paradise, Panizza’s Pesto
Paradise is a word never to be employed lightly, it being too special to be devalued by mis-use. I’ve been in touch with a man who uses the ‘paradise’ word with every last gram of passion and meaning that it is due - and I … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Best Pasta, Coffee, DOP, DOP Basilico Genovese, Food travel, Genoa, Il Genovese Restaurant, Ligurian, Memories, Mercato Orientale, Pesto alla Genovese, Pesto alla Genovese, Real Italy, Terroir, Veal, Vitellone
Tagged 'Il Genovese' on Via Galata, 'Recipes from Paradise', Basil, Brown and Company, Byron, Camogli, Charles Dickens, Cinqueterre, DH Lawrence, DOP Basil, Fred Plotkin, La Spezia, Little, M&S Deli's, Mercato Orientale, Pesato alla Genovese, Pesto Rossi, Roberto Panizza, Shelley, The Gulf of Poets
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Praise be, where praise should be
When an English actress called Rachel who chooses to live in Rome contacted me yesterday for my preferred way to dress puntarelle little did I know there’d be a chain reaction. Puntarelle is a deliciously bitter tasting leaf adorned with what look like … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Anchovies, Basil, Best Pasta, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chicken, Faella, Fish, Food of the Ancients, Genoa, Pesto alla Genovese, Real Italy, Risotto, Stocks and Stock Making
Tagged Anchovy Fillets, Brocolli, EVOO, Faella Pasta, Garlic Cream, Lemons, Pestle & Mortar, Sicilian Sea Salt, Spaghetti
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Japanese Peaches and Spicy Chocolate
One large bi-annual food show in London and little to show for the visit, all but for a handful of gems and friends. Studiously stalking and then emerging from row upon row of booths displaying authentic this and organic that, plus inevitable copies of … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Cooking, Basil, Beef, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bread, Chicken, Food Marketeers, Organic Food, Pigeoneau, Poulet Fermier, Speciality Chicken, supermarkets, The Food Business
Tagged Abandoned Peaches from Fukushima, Austrian Food, Baby White Peaches from Japan, Capestone, GM-free French Poultry, Green Saffron, IFE 13, Istanbul Spice Market, Lithuania, Loue, Marks & Spencer, Midleton (Co Cork), Momo Festival, Organic Welsh Chickens, Pigeonneaux, Romania, Schmaltz, Scottish Beef, Waka Momo, Zaabar Chocolate
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Two Buses and a Pre-Historic Encounter
You know the English saying – you wait for ages at the bus stop and then two or more buses arrive together. This just happened to me. One week the Poissonnèrie Municipale at Le Tréport (Normandy), then a week and a … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Archaeology and Food, Basil, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cicchetti, Classic Rice Dishes, Fish, Food of the Ancients, Food travel, Foraging, Ligurian, Nonna's Cooking, Origins of our food, Oysters and Shellfish, Puglia, Pugliese, Real Italy, Rice, Risotto, Terroir, Wild Food, Wild Funghi
Tagged Chanterelles, Colette on Truffles, Danielli Fresh Pasta Shop, DOP Marvaldi Olive Oil, Il Genovese Restaurant, Ligurian Olive Oil, Magnosa, Melaosporum Black Truffle, Mercato Orientale in Genoa, Monocle Magazine, Perigord Truffle, Pesto alla Genovese, Pesto Rossi, Poissonerie Municipale at Le Treport, Porcini, Roberto Panizza, Taggiasche Olives, Tartufo d'Alba, truffles, Via Galata, Via XX Septembre, Wallpaper Guide to Genoa, White truffle, Wild Funghi
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Ambassadors with Molto Gusto
Let me share with you a little known secret. In the lower ground floor of a fine townhouse in one of London’s most exclusive squares, there is a tiny restaurant which completely changes its theme near monthly. Two flags hang above … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Basil, Best Pasta, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Ligurian, New Chefs, Nonna's Cooking, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Rice, Simple Food, Southern Italy, The Moors, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Albergo's, Carlo Presenti, Culatello, Farinata, Gelati, Genoa, Italian Cook Schools, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Kitchen, Italian Provinces, Italian Regions, Liguria, Ligurian Olive Oils, Ligurian Wines, Nino Bergese School (Genoa), Over-run American style Ice Cream, Pesto alla Genovese, Pinoli, Ragu, Ravioli, Salsa di Noci, Sicily, Tocco, Trofie, Via Sotto Ripa
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There’s ‘Pesto’ and there’s ‘Salsa’
Back in Genoa for the shortest 24 hour pit-stop, I fitted in so much stuff. I was there mostly to talk tuna – posh, top end tuna c/o of my local interpreter and fixer, friend and architect, Sheila Opezzi. This is tuna which we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Aubergine, Basil, Best Pasta, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cicchetti, DOP, Fish, Harry's Bar, Ligurian, Pigeoneau, Real Italy, Salad, Terroir, The Food Business
Tagged Aperol Spritz, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Borlotti Beans, Carloforte, Ciccheti, DOP Basilico alla Genovese, Ersatz Pesto, Farinata, Genoa, Gustiamo, Liguria, Lord Byron, Mercata Orientale, Pesto Rossi 1947, Prosecco, Ristorante Il Genovese, Sotto Rippo, Via Galata, Via XX Septembre
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24h du Genoa
Back from the world’s greatest endurance race, the 24h du Mans in its 80th running, I couldn’t resist the headline. Off to Genoa on the early flight and still too late for lunch on day one and a too early … Continue reading