This is part 4 of 5 in our series on our Culinary Journey through Northern Italy. See our last post on Florence here. A key aspect of Great Lakes Cuisine is "terroir," the French term meaning the "agriculturally relevant features of an area of land." For example, the Bordeaux region, according to The Wine Bible, [...]
Culinary Journeys – Florence, Italy (Part 2)
To see part 1 of our Italian Culinary Journey in Florence, go here. After a day trip to Siena, we returned to sightseeing in Florence. Throughout our trip, we visited stunning cathedrals and museums brimming with classically important art work, but this is a food blog, so that's what we're going to focus on. We [...]
Culinary Journeys – Siena, Italy
We started our Italian Culinary Journey in Florence (see Part 1 here) and then spent a day travelling to Siena, the culinary epicenter of Pecorino Toscano. We were searching for a very specific cheese - Pecorino Foglie di Noce. Outside Italy, Pecorino Romano is the most well-known, but Pliny the Elder wrote about Pecorino Tuscano [...]
Culinary Journeys – Florence, Italy (Part 1)
Visiting the birthplace of Dante Aligheri, we open with a sonnet,a tribute to Florence, the start of our Italian culinary journey! For I am one acquainted with the flight -I am Milwaukee to Vienna bound,But connection to Florence far too tight, First to Zurich, then to our Tuscan town.Airborne vision - patch-worked fields of green,Swollen [...]
Roasted Squash Salad with Turkey and Wild Rice
This recipe was adapted from a Faro and Black Rice dish featured in Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home cookbook. We’ve adapted a number of Keller’s recipes to our Great Lakes tradition (see here and here) and we continue that approach with this recipe that features wild rice and roasted turkey. We are replacing the [...]
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