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Catalan cuisine relies heavily on ingredients popular along the Mediterranean coast, including fresh vegetables (especially tomato, garlic, eggplant (aubergine), capsicum, and artichoke), wheat products (bread, pasta), Arbequina olive oils, wines, legumes (beans, chickpeas), mushrooms (particularly wild mushrooms), nuts (pine nuts, hazelnuts and almonds), all sorts of pork preparations ...
The Cook of Castamar (Spanish: La cocinera de Castamar) is a Spanish period drama television series adapting the novel of the same name by Fernando J. Muñez which stars Michelle Jenner and Roberto Enríquez. Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman. [1]
Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. [1] More specifically, pomodoro is a univerbation of pomo ('apple') + d ('of') + oro ('gold'), [2] possibly owing to the fact that the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading from Spain to Italy and North Africa were yellow, with the earliest attestation (of the archaic plural form pomi d'oro) going back to Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1544).
Cacio e pepe (Italian: [ˈkaːtʃo e pˈpeːpe]) is a pasta dish typical of the Lazio region of Italy. [1] [2] Cacio e pepe means 'cheese and pepper' in several central Italian dialects.
Clockwise from top left; some of the most popular Italian foods: Neapolitan pizza, carbonara, espresso, and gelato. Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine [1] consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora.
The 17th-century chef and writer La Varenne (1615–1678) marked a change from cookery as known in the Middle Ages, to somewhat lighter dishes, and more modest presentations. Subsequently, Antonin Carême (1784–1833) also published works on cooking, and he simplified and codified an earlier and even more complex cuisine.
Alfredo Le Pera (7 June 1900 – 24 June 1935) was a Brazilian-born Argentine journalist, dramatist, and lyricist, best known for his brief but fruitful collaboration with the renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel. [1] He died in a plane accident with Gardel when he was at the height of his career. [2] [3]
The Il Fornaio brand was established in 1972 as a baking school in Barlassina, Lombardia, Italy.It opened a retail bakery in Milan in 1975, and was licensed in 1981 to Williams-Sonoma, Inc. as a retail bakery concept.