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In Italian Food, What's Authentic and Does It Really Even Matter?
Italians are passionate about their food culture, but the ingredients we eat and how we eat them are constantly evolving and changing over time.
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Italians are passionate about their food culture, but the ingredients we eat and how we eat them are constantly evolving and changing over time.
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In November, after the trees have had time to produce, the author gathers friends and spends days in a remote hamlet behind Cortona.
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Sara Jenkins is good at change, and drama, and do-or-die behavior, but now that it's a must, she's finally learning how to stay focused
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Even as Italian cooking grows in popularity it still can't gain the respect that French food once had or that Nouvelle Spanish food has
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Restaurants are filled with friendship—but this restaurateur longs for ordinary pleasures that the cooking life lacks
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A restaurateur makes her case for simplicity, good ingredients, and not overwhelming eaters with fat and salt
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A crazy, pork-liver-filled, spur-of-the-moment dinner reminds a restaurateur of the value of cooking with restraint
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The owner of Porsena says olive oil can be used for everything—even frying—and she often prefers Greek oils to Italian
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Negative user reviews make a restaurateur wonder: What are the perfect restaurants where these people have been eating?
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Her kitchen in turmoil, a chef imagines fleeing to a colonial villa—but knows that pressing forward is what her job is all about
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