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Tramezzini da Bar

September 30, 2017
tramezzini

Welcome to the September edition of Cucina Conversations! This month, we are celebrating our online roundtable’s first birthday. Our monthly posts are a blogging commitment I look forward to because we come together virtually to share different recipes around a common theme. It’s the next best thing to all of us being together in person discussing, cooking, and eating Italian food. Due to a busy summer teaching cooking classes at the Italian Cultural and Community Center, and some circumstances out of my control, I had to skip writing my Cucina Conversations posts for the months of June, July, and August, […]

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Catching Up

September 5, 2017
The Side Dish

Hi friends, It feels frivolous to be working on my food blog at a time like this. Many parts of the city I have called home for the past nineteen years are still under water, and the areas that have drained have been left in ruins–mostly people’s homes, but also businesses, parks, grocery stores, and schools. I have felt both relief and guilt about living in a suburban development that came out of the storm unscathed while others are facing the physical, emotional, and financial toll of having been flooded out of their homes. While my routine was interrupted only […]

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How to help Houston after Hurricane Harvey

August 30, 2017
Hurricane Harvey

Dear friends, For the past four days, the city of Houston, its suburbs and coastal communities were all brought to their knees with catastrophic flooding and massive damage from hurricane/tropical storm Harvey. The amount of rainfall we received is unprecedented. The majority of Houston and its environs are under several feet of water, some reservoirs, rivers, and bayous have crested their banks, and people who thought their neighborhoods would never flood are now in shelters, unsure of whether they will have a home to return to once the water recedes. The devastation is of massive proportions and it is heart-wrenching […]

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Lingue di Gatto

May 26, 2017
lingue di gatto

Welcome to the May edition of Cucina Conversations! We are having some fun with this month’s theme: foods named after parts of the body, both human and animal. It might sound a little creepy, but I promise it’s anything but! You may remember when I wrote about occhi di bue cookies for Valentine’s Day, I also told you about a few Italian foods named after parts of the body. I had so much fun writing about this subject, that my fellow Cucina Conversations bloggers and I unanimously decided it had to be the topic for this month’s posts. My contribution are these […]

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Focaccia Veneta

April 14, 2017
focaccia veneta

Welcome to the April edition of Cucina Conversations! We’re sharing our recipes a little early this month so you can see what we have cooked and baked for our upcoming Easter celebrations. Like Christmas, Easter is one of my favorite holidays of the year for both its religious significance and the food traditions. I am thoroughly enjoying researching and learning the recipes of my northern Italian heritage, so for this month’s post I’m sharing a recipe for focaccia veneta, a yeasted sweet bread typical to the region of the Veneto. In the Venetian dialect, this bread is known as fugassa or fugassin. This is a […]

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