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Culinary Tips From a Film Wallah

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: London, Novels, Helena Bonham Carter, Npr, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Cooking, Merchant and Ivory, Halal Food, Film, Italian Food, Film Directors, Indian Food, Home News
Richard C. Morais

"The key to cooking is your attitude. You must have complete confidence that whatever you do will be wonderful." That was one of the bits of advice that my late friend, Ismail Merchant, passed on to me in 1990.

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When in Rome: From the Vatican to Valentino, a Guide to Eating, Living, and Shopping in Italy

Amy Chan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Pasta, Rome, Italy, Tours, Prada, Venice, Vatican, Outlet Shopping Italy, Florence, Italian Holiday, Rome Tours, Italy Designer Clothing, Italy Vacations, Italy Trip, Coliseum, Italy Hotels, Italy Travel, Italian Food, Travel News
Amy Chan

An Italy trip can be quite expensive, but for such a once (or twice) in a lifetime experience, I say: If you go Italy, you might as well go all out.

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Recession Recipe: Allie's Easy Summertime Pasta (VIDEO)

EconomyBites | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Cheap Food, Summer Recipes, Italian Food, Easy Recipes, Pasta Recipes, New York News
EconomyBites

People ask me all the time to do a "clean-out-your-pantry" recipe and this is my answer to that request. This pasta came about on one of those Sundays where I just couldn't drag my ass to the grocery store.

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Donatella Cooks...Really Well!

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Pasta, Italian Food, Recipes, Cooking, Cookbooks, Family, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

My company publishes a lot of good cookbooks, so many I can't really keep up with them all. But the other week one crossed my desk that I decided to o...

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Recession Recipe: Pasta Puttanesca (VIDEO)

EconomyBites | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Italian, Pasta, Easy Recipes, Cheap Food, Cheap-and-Easy-Italian-Recipe, Pasta Puttanesca, Italian Food, Pasta Recipe, Home News
EconomyBites

The pizza topping everyone loves to hate is about to make it's Economy Bites debut and we couldn't be more excited -- check it!

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Beef Carpaccio with Parmesan and Arugula: Savoring the End of Winter (RECIPE)

Pascale Boucicaut | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Spring, Winter, Italian Food, Easy Appetizer Recipes, Appetizer Recipes, Beef, Carpaccio, Recipes, Arugula, Beef Carpaccio Recipe, Parmesan, Carpaccio Recipe, Home News
Pascale Boucicaut

In Italy, several cities claim to have been the birthplace of this raw beef dish. As the most popular version of the story has it, the dish was invented for a countess, whose doctor told her to eat her meat raw.

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Porchetta: That Pig Stole My Heart

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food, Porchetta, Eating, Pork, Italian Food, Home News
Robert Rosenthal

Bulbous chunks of pure porcine pleasure, redolent of garlic and rosemary, coupled with the salty crunch of its cutaneous covering, constitute what is at once a cardiologist's nightmare and a carnivore's wet dream.

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Cooking Art History: Leonardo da Vinci

Maite Gomez-Rejon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Leonardo Da Vinci, Art, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Food, Vegetarianism, Getty, Artbites, Renaissance, Martha Stewart, Apicius, Home News
Maite Gomez-Rejon

Let us pay homage to Leonardo da Vinci by preparing a roasted butternut squash dish.

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Recession Recipe: Chicken with Mushrooms (VIDEO)

EconomyBites | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Cheap-and-Easy-Italian-Recipe, Easy Chicken Recipe, Chicken, Baked Chicken, Italian Food, Chicken Recipe, Easy Recipes, Home News
EconomyBites

IT. IS. CRAZY. DELICIOUS. I hope you make this one, I really, really do.

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Italian Food TV Host Under Fire For "Succulent" Cat Stew Recommendation (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Succulent Cat, La Prova Del Cuoco, Cat Stew, The Cooks' Challenge, Bizarre Foods, Cat Food, Cat, Delicious Cats, Italy, Beppe Bigazzi, Rai, Cooking With Common Sense, Beppe Bigazzi Cats, Francesca Martini, Elisa Isoardi, Eating Animals, Eating Cats, Carla Rocchi, Ready Steady Cook, Italian Food, Enpa, Food, Cat Stew Video, Stewed Cat, Video, World News

Leading Italian food expert, writer and TV host Beppe Bigazzi has been suspended indefinitely from his TV program for curiously recommending a cat ste...

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Chef Speak: Brandon Boudet

Heather Taylor | Posted 10.28.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Farmers' Market, Pasta, Spaghetti Recipes, Brandon Boudet, Recipes, Restaurants, Italian Food, Best of La, Los Angeles, Interview, Dominick's, Los Angeles News
Heather Taylor

Dominick's was once a hangout frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra. Now, this cozy West Hollywood spot is where foodies go to eat killer spaghetti and meatballs (and here's the recipe).

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Growing Up in Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli

Nancy Cronk | Posted 02.07.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Growing Up, Large Families, Uaw, Unemployment, Chrysler, Economy, Detroit, Gm, Community Organizing, Italian Food, Ford, Unions, Detroit News
Nancy Cronk

Raising a big family was tough for my parents. Feeding 11 people on an auto-workers income meant everything my parents did required effort and creativity.

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In Praise Of Slow Food

Carl Honore | Posted 01.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fast Food, Italian Culture, Books, In Praise of Slowness, Italy, London, Arianna's Book Club, Slow Food, Arianna's Reading, Slow Movement, Food, Huffington Post Book Club, Eating, Italian Food, Slow, Healthy Living News
Carl Honore

The bright news is that people all over the world are taking a slower approach to food -- and eating better as a result.

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Umami, No Cheese

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Pesto, Home Cooking, Pasta, Food Blogs, Italian Food, Meals, Recipes, New York, New York News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Food people seem to obsess over that perfect taste sensation that is umami -- a self-defining, you've-got-to-experience-it-to-believe-it flavor in this Genovese Pesto Pasta.

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Everybody Eats Where? Harry Cipriani

Mara Gibbs | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Italian Food, NY Restaurants, Harry Cipriani, Restaurant Reviews, New York Restaurants, Padma Lakshmi, New York News
Mara Gibbs

I celebrate my birthday every year at one of the many Cipriani restaurants, although I am still partial to the first Cipriani in the states here on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

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Fancy-Pants Fried Chicken in Tribeca

Ed Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Carmellini, Pie, New York City, Restaurants, Fried Chicken, Locanda Verde, Cafe Boulud, Biscuits, Tribeca, Italian Food, Restaurant Reviews, New York News
Ed Levine

Maybe the fried chicken at Locanda Verde will eventually ascend to my fried chicken pantheon, but for now I have to console myself with the honey butter biscuits and the plum-nectarine pie.

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Living Proof of the American Mediterranean Diet

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food, Gardening, Zucchini, Recipes, Health, Family, Mediterranean Diet, Italian Food, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

My in-laws are both 88. Food -- Italian food -- is, I believe, the secret to their health.

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