Thanksgiving Dinner Support: Two Breads and a Dessert

Contrary to our characters as it may seem, Tom and I don’t cook for this holiday. Our tradition is to join a pair of good friends at their table, bringing along a few interesting edibles and drinkables to supplement the bountiful dishes awaiting us there. I always bake breads for the feast. This year I [...]

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Wild Boar Piedmontese Dinner

Returned from our truffle-seeking travels in the Piedmont, Tom and I wanted to recapture the gorgeous flavors of that region’s food in a dinner party. Last week I wrote about the pasta dish we created for it with the black truffles we’d brought home. Three of the other courses of that meal – aperitivo, secondo, [...]

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Black is the Color of My True Love’s Truffle

I had hoped to bring home a white truffle from my trip, earlier this month, to Italy’s Piedmont. Truffles were everywhere, especially in Alba during the annual truffle fair, but prices for the whites were stratospheric. Much better bargains were the local black truffles – which I hadn’t even known occurred in that region. . [...]

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On the Trail of the White Truffle

When this post is published Tom and I will be in Italy, traveling through the Piedmont and endeavoring to consume as many white truffles as we possibly can. The month-long White Truffle Fair will still be going on in Alba, and I’m assured that the scent of tuber magnatum pico will be in the air everywhere [...]

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