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Category Archives: Ligurian
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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Tuccu’s My New Ragu
Never have I found a simple story so complex to nail. I fell on a meat sauce for pasta that excited me - effectively a ragú - from Genoa. Roberto Panizza (right), maker of the finest of all Pesto alla Genovese’s, has it on … Continue reading
Posted in American Dishes, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Ligurian, Rants, Real Italy
Tagged Bolognaise, Clod, Dring's of Greenwich, Fettucine, Geneve, Il Genovese Ristorante, Jo Wennerholm, Ligurian Olive Oils, Matama, Naples, Pesto Rossi, Porcini, Ragout, Ragu, Ragu alla Genuvese, Ravioli of Borage, Reale, Roberto Panizza, Swiss Guard, Tuccu, Tuccu Genovese
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‘Tuccu’ Comes Next
Reassurance. This writer has not gone away. Like my piece on ‘Al Dente’ which I reckoned would be simple enough and then what happened – it became a deep pool of differing thoughts. I began researching another on what I thought was … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food travel, Ligurian, Real Italy, Simple Food
Tagged 'In Search of TASTE', Emilia-Romagna, Genoa, il Genovese, Monocle, Ragout, Ragu, Ragu alla Genuvese, Tuccu, Wallpaper
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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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Chickpea Fervour
If you get in a fervour for the flavour of chickpea’s, then read on. A few years ago walking around a small town somewhere to the north of Alessandria (Liguria), we noticed a long queue forming outside a tiny, green … Continue reading
I Found my Apulian Fava
Surrealism is a near daily overly used and, worse, largely misunderstood term. When you walk into London’s Queen’s Club, past three shiny patent leather black Maybach’s into a simple dining room overlooking immaculate tennis courts to meet Peppe Zullo – that’s surreal. Maybach’s stand for vulgar … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Archaeology and Food, Aubergine, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Eggplant, Food of the Ancients, Ligurian, melanzane, Origins of our food, peasant cooking, Pugliese, Real Italy, Southern Italy, Terroir, The Moors
Tagged 'Burnt Flour', 3000 year old olive trees, An Appetite for Puglia by Christine Smallwood, Antonio Tomassini, Apulia, Cacioricotta, Crema di Fava, Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, Farina Brucciato, Grano Arso, Mosto Cotto, Olive Oil, Orcchiette (Little Ears), Peppe Zullo, Primitivo di Salento, Puglia, Pugliese, Rosario Didonna, Taranto, Wild Chicory
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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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