Italian family, food, drink, life and everything else
If you haven’t had Limoncello or at least heard of it, I question if you’re really Italian or Italian-American? Limoncello one of the most popular liqueurs in Italy and it has recently become very popular in The United States. Because Limoncello imparts a strong lemon flavor without the sourness or bitterness of pure lemon juice…
Panna Cotta, Italian for “cooked cream”, is truly among the simplest of all desserts. It is a pudding which, in its most fundamental form, is made with cream, sugar and gelatin. It is believed to have originated in the Piedmont Region of Northern Italy where the earliest recipes did not specifically call for gelatin but…
Caponata is a wonderful dish made primarily with eggplant and other vegetables then combined with various vinegars and sugar to produce an “agrodolce” or a “sweet and sour” taste.
To me, growing up “Italian” seemed to mean growing up differently than other kids with whom I went to school and who were not Italian. We had our customs, our feast days, our foods, our music, our extended family and everything else that made us Italian. Everything that was so natural to me and yet…
