Elizabeth Minchilli's Blog, page 36
July 12, 2015
ristorante dalla marisa {venice}
A typical equation when choosing where to eat in Italy – especially for tourists – is food + view. The ‘where can we eat well with a great view’ question is one that I get very often. And by view, most people mean dining on some idyllic roof top or piazza, looking out over Florence...
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July 6, 2015
pizzeria emma {rome}
Last week I met a girlfriend for lunch. Usually, when I meet someone for lunch, in Rome, pizza is the last thing on my mind. Traditionally pizzerie in Rome were always open only in the evening. Since making pizza involved heating up a wood burning oven, this was something a) you only wanted to do...
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July 5, 2015
sugar {pastries for breakfast in milan}
If you’re like me you dream of having a perfect buttery croissant for breakfast just about every morning. And if you’re like me, you reign yourself in, and have fruit and yogurt, or maybe cereal or oatmeal. Or do you go the savory route? Eggs maybe? But if you’re like me, then every so often...
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July 1, 2015
antica mescita di san niccolò {florence}
Long before the neighborhood of San Niccolo’ in Florence became trendy with the opening of restaurants like Zeb, and Fuori di Porta there was Antica Mescita di San Niccolò. This venerable place is part of the Florentine tradition of vinai – wine sellers – and despite its casual and simple atmosphere the wine list here is superb,...
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June 30, 2015
okroshka {cold russian soup}
I’m not big on cooking in Rome once the heat hits even in the best of times. It’s high season in terms of tours, so after a long day in the sun, the last thing I feel like doing is getting behind a hotter stove. But this year? It’s about 100 times worse. We are...
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June 29, 2015
da nazzareno {rome}
Sometimes it takes visiting friends to pull me out of my usual routine.No, I”m not talking about sightseeing. I’ve long since stopped taking guests to St. Peters, the Forum or the Colosseum. You can go on your own, and I’m more than happy to set you up with a tour guide. But me? Sorry, but...
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June 23, 2015
erba brusca {milano}
Perhaps the biggest incentive for me to write my most recent app, Eat Milan, was the fact that Expo2015 is currently taking place in that city. I figured that even if a small percentage of the food focussed crowds that are expected to descend on the fair bought my app, I’d be in good shape....
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June 22, 2015
ristorante nino in rome {with victor hazan}
If I tell you that one of the biggest influences on the way I cook has been the original cookbooks by Marcella Hazan, I’m not really revealing anything earth shattering. Her books, Classic Italian Cooking and More Classic Italian Cooking taught a whole generation of us what it meant to cook Italian. Even though I...
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June 18, 2015
la vecchia latteria (milan)
There are lots of new places to eat near the Duomo in Milan. The openings of Eats and Mercato del Duomo provide multi level, stylish, high end food emporiums where you can find just about anything from cornetti to arrancini any time of the day. But one of my favorite places in the center of town is...
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June 15, 2015
eating outside in rome {piperno}
Oddly enough I’ve never written a stand alone blog post on Piperno. This is, if memory serves me correctly, one of the first restaurants I ever went to with my parents when we lived in Rome in the ‘seventies. And it continues to be one of my father’s favorite places which means I’ve been there...
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