How to prepare an Italian antipasto platter
Create your own antipasto platter in a few easy steps. Learn how to choose ingredients like an Italian.
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Melanzane di Mauro: recipe
Aubergine, eggplant, melanzane: they sound good in any language and, in my opinion, taste even better. These have been my favourite vegetables since I was a child and my mother used to
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Carpaccio di zucchine: a vegan no-cook recipe
Until the 1960s, Carpaccio was a Venetian painter whose renaissance canvases are valued as a record of what the city looked like during his lifetime. Today, historians pore over his works extracting knowledge of the minutiae of sixteenth-century Venetian dress and architecture contained in them, including a detailed rendition of the old wooden Rialto bridge.
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Finocchio gratinato: oven roasted fennel with parmigiano (recipe)
One of the things that surprises most English-speaking tourists, when coming to Italy for the first time, is that in restaurants main dishes don’t come with vegetables. That’s not to say that Italians don’t eat vegetables with main dishes, but you have to order them separately. You find them on the menu in a
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