“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
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Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
