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Italian Treasures -The Redheads of Maranello
Sleek, fast redheads, the Testa Rossas, created by the late Enzo Ferrari: are displayed in the Museo Ferrari in Maranello, Italy in the region of Emilia-Romagna. Museo Ferrari is a Ferrari company...
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Mediterranean Recipes for Lunchtime
The healthiest meals you can make are ones that you prepare from scratch using unprocessed foods. If you don’t have time to home-cook all of your meals, try to make healthy choices about the processed...
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Italian Treasures – The Castles of Piacenza
Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza. Piacenza is located at a major crossroad between Bologna and Milan and between Brescia...
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Cooking With Anchovies
A health food for some, a gourmet food to others and a scary little fish for still others. This tiny little fish swims in schools throughout most of the world’s oceans. Most become food for bigger...
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Five Easy Weeknight Dinner Menus
It seems that summer went by so quickly. And here we are on the verge of Halloween. This is the time of year when kids are getting back into the swing of classes and homework and parents are gearing...
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Easy, Tasty, Healthy Winter Dinners
LOST IN WINTER by Leonid Afremov Tips For Eating Healthy Choose whole, fresh, natural, organic, local, seasonal, unrefined and unprocessed foods. You’ll typically find the least processed foods around...
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Cook An Umbrian Inspired Winter Dinner For 4
Umbria is a region of both historic and modern central Italy. It is the only Italian region having neither a coastline nor a border with another country. The regional capital is Perugia. Umbria is...
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Warming Winter Salads
This is not the season for cold potato salad or any other cold salad when you are trying to warm up. Then again, forget any memory of overcooked, withered spinach salads adorned with hard-boiled eggs...
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Vegetarian Dinners That Taste Good
Vegetarian dishes can shine as the main attraction, especially when using fresh and flavorful ingredients. Use spices and herbs often, add lots of flavor with grains and beans, include good fats to...
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Italian Regional Cooking – Emilia Romagna
Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore This Italian region comprises the historical areas of Emilia and Romagna. Half the territory is formed by the Apennines and the other half is a large plain, which reaches east...
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Tired of the Same Old Salad?
Although the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use the word “salad,” they enjoyed a variety of dishes with raw vegetables dressed with vinegar, oil and herbs. Pliny the Elder, in Natural History, for...
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Steak and …..
For conscious carnivores who like beef, the best option — for your health and for the environment — is meat from pastured cattle raised on grass from start to finish. They’re rich in good fats and...
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Spring Dinner Menus
Use in-season spring ingredients to create some healthier dinners this week. After a few weeks of holiday eating and chocolate candy, you may want to eat a bit lighter. Dinner Menu 1 Shrimp with...
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Garden Fresh Dinners
Take a trip to your local farmers’ market and check out all the fresh fruits and vegetables it has to offer. You will quickly see all the possibilities that you can make for dinner. In fact, I have to...
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Seafood from the Grill
Thinking of grilling fish this weekend? Certain types of fish are trickier than others, but almost any type of seafood can be grilled — shellfish, whole fish, steaks and fillets. Meaty fish are ideal...
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Small Plates For Light Eating
Small plate dining is very appealing when it is hot, as it is right now where I live. It is appealing for two and even for a small gathering of friends. This type of dining, often called tapas dining,...
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A Florentine Inspired Summer Dinner
Florence’s hot temperatures, al fresco dining and a busy open-air arts and concert season make it one of Italy’s most vibrant cities in the summer. The classic Italian dinner, or “cena”, has a very...
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Panini Time
Milan Panini Shop Although the first U.S. reference to panini dates to 1956 and a precursor appeared in a 16th-century Italian cookbook, panini sandwiches became trendy in Milanese bars, called...
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Grill Your Vegetables
What could be easier than making your entire meal on the grill? Cook vegetable side dishes alongside your main course for a quick summer meal. Here are some of my favorite vegetables to put on the...
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What Else Can I Do With Grilled Chicken?
Like burgers and hot dogs or a rack of ribs, grilled chicken is a regular during the summer months. Whether skewered, flattened, brined, spiced or upended on a beer can, there are lots and lots of...
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