Peasant food
What is called Peasant food (in other languages also "poor man's food") is the best historical example of creativity in the kitchen.
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01
Apr
Posts by Giulio Virduci
21
Jan
Nietzsche’s sausages
Despite what he wrote was provocative and aggressive, in real life Nietzsche was a good-natured boy, even submissive sometimes, tremend...
18
Jan
Frying paradox
Do you know the definition of paradox?
"A statement that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually...
17
Jan
Chicken and “Auspicia”
The ancient Romans firmly believed in auspicia: observing natural phenomena and connecting them to the will of the Gods.
A very popu...
25
Nov
The Soviet cuisine
Perhaps not everyone knows that Soviet cuisine also had its vademecum: Kniga o vkusnoi i zdorovoi pishche (The Book of Tasty and Health...
23
Nov
War sausages
They were tough times in the UK during the Great War.
For both, the troops and the citizens in the Homeland.
In fact, the army en...
22
Nov
Escoffier and the “Brigade de Cuisine”
Here's a post about a chef who has perhaps changed the professional catering industry forever: Auguste Escoffier.
Born in Nice, Fran...
18
Nov
The Xitomatl
The history of the tomato is somehow fascinating.
Do you know that it was among the first artificially selected fruits? It is native...
20
May
Caciocavallo of the emigrant
By the early 20th century, immigration had become a mass phenomenon in the United States.
Facing hordes of desperate people from Eur...
11
May
The art of Carvery
Yes, because carving food is an art: that was the main point of "Il trinciatore" (the Carver), the book written by Vincenzo Cervio, the...
