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Issey Miyake by Taschen
I found this beautiful Issey Miyake by Taschen for my daughter at the Open Door bookshop in Trastevere. At
one fifth of the price! My guru.
Tibertrio in concert,Fairy Tales Pub
TIBERTRIO in concert
Friday 23rd October 22.30 at Fairy Tales Pub, Via Caio Mario 16A
Luca Mattioli-voice and guitar
Alberto Martinelli-harmonica
Enrico Mandalari – Bass
To Kill a Mockingbird-English Theatre of Rome
THE THEATRE OF ROME
with
the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Excerpts selected by Roy Doliner
Direction by Georgia Darell,
Assistance of Catherine Durickas
with the participation of
Laurence Belgrave, Rick Breco, Natalie E. Brown,Anna Butterworth, Allan Caister, Don Carroll,
Gabrielle Chiararo, Poppy Cotterell, Chris [...]
Sonnets,Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli by Mike Stocks
My husband, an Italian and lover of Belli was so excited to see that these have been so excellently translated in Italian.Everyone who has been to Rome would enjoy these.
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (1791-1863) composed well over two thousand clandestine Romanesco sonnets for many years while leading an aparent conformist life of letters.
Risotto with autumn vegetables
Make a vegetable broth of at least 1,1/2 ltrs of water and some carrots, daikon or turnips, green beans, yellow pumpkin, sprouted soya beans,onion, garlic, piece of ginger, a small piece of green chilli without seeds, zucchini, bay leaf, rosemary, s & p. If you have some turkey or chicken bones, add them too.
Drain the [...]
Posted by Ren on ottobre 19th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »Black cabbage & porcini mushroom sauce
A bunch of black cabbage,or cavollo nero,known as kale in England
3 small porcini mushrooms
garlic
fresh green chilli pepper
olive oil, s & p
Luca made this pasta sauce to salute the black cabbage as the first taste of autumn.
Strip the black cabbage leaves of their inner stems and wash. Cut into strips and blanch in boiling water for [...]
The classic cuisine of the Italian Jews
‘Vesti da Turco e mangia da Ebreo’, a well known ancient Italian adage with advises one to ‘dress like a Turk and eat like a Jew’. This wonderful books starts just like that. I found it at the Open Door bookshop in Trastevere, a second hand copy.
Written by Edda Servi Machlin who was born in [...]
almond and lemon cake
Juice and grated rind of 1 organic lemon
4 tbspns olive oil
3/4 cup half dark brown sugar,half white sugar
3 eggs
tspn salt
1 1/2 cup mixed white flour and /or all whole meal flour
1 cup ground almonds (if you like this can be done to leave some crunchy pieces)
raising agent fo 500gr cake (bicarb or cream of tartar)
Heat [...]
Chicken on a bed of vegetables
My daughter is living in London and I cook these kind of roasts for her to look at and think of home!
Have the butcher prepare the chicken as for ‘alla diavolo’, cut through the back, but not flattened. Slice some carrots, zucchini, red onions, garlic and place them on the bottom of an oven dish [...]
dalla Zappa alla Zuppa
Posted by Ren on ottobre 6th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Pomegranate molasses
My friend from the Open Door bookshop gave me a present of Pomegranate Molasses
and lent me a book of recipes
The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean by Paula Wolfert.
The sour and sweet syrupy molasses can be added to a salad of green beans, is good for marinades with fish and chicken, lamb and pork.Add to [...]
Posted by Ren on ottobre 6th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not, Recipes | Comment now »Festa della Castagna-Chestnut Fair in Vallerano
Festa della Castagna e del Marrone a Vallerano (Viterbo)
From Saturday 10th October
In this area of the Province of Viterbo the chestnut is the queen of the autumn, the star of the autumn festivals that herald the arrival of winter. Four villages dotted around the Cimina Mountains have festivals and events dedicated to chestnuts: Vallerano, Canepina, [...]
Sagra del Faggiolo Borbontino
Saturday 17th October at 19.30 Polenta and Beans
and Sunday 18th October at 12.30.
How to get to Borbona:-
From Rome take autostrada A1 direction Florence-exit Fiano Romano and follow RIETI-take SS Salaria for Rieti-follow signs for Ascoli P.,l’Aquila-when you arrive at Antrodoco follow for Ascoli Piceno-after a series of galleries before Posta turn right and then [...]
Sagra del Fallone-Cornmeal pizza fair
SAGRA DEL FALLONE
10 – 11 Ottobre 2009
Affile (Rm)
Pizza made with yellow cornmeal flour, cooked on a wood fire, filled with broccoli and sausages. Wine Cesanese D..C.
Posted by Ren on ottobre 5th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Sapori di terra e di mare-Tastes from the land and sea
Sunday 18 october from 12.00 in piazza G. B. Grassi, centro storico of Fiumicino, come and taste the local culinary richness from the Land and Sea.
Posted by Ren on ottobre 5th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »cacio e funghi dei Monti Prenestini
Thursday 15 October
At 17.30 Free course to recognize the various mushrooms of the area organized by GRUPPO MICOLOGICO LAZIALE at the Pro-Loco in via di Guadagnolo,
Saturday 17th October
At 13,00 Lunch the typical recipes of the Monti Prenestini made with the local cacio cheese.
At 15,00 watch the making of the local cheese with wine tasting and [...]
Sagra della polenta e castrato-polenta and barbeque pork
In the Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Lucretili
The polenta is prepared in the centre of the village in the enormous old pots of copper accompanied with the famous pork chops of the area cooked on wood coals. All washed down with hearty local wine.
How to get there: By car fromm Rome, the Grande Raccordo Anulare [...]
Sagre delle castagne-chestnut festival
Posted by Ren on ottobre 5th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around, Recipes | Comment now »Chocoday
“2 chocoday”
10-11-12 ottobre 2009
MUSEO del Cioccolato a Norma(lt) in via colle catilina
festa del cioccolato
Sagra del Fungo Bellegra
“ SAGRA DELLE TACCHIE AI FUNGHI PORCINI“
Sabato e Domenica 10 e 11 Ottobre 2009 a BELLEGRA (RM)
HOW TO GET TO BELLEGRA
Autostrada A1 Roma-Napoli, uscire al casello di Valmontone e seguire le indicazioni per Bellegra.
Autostrada A24 Roma-L’Aquila, uscire al casello di Castel Madama e seguire le indicazioni per Bellegra.
Rome Film Festival
International Rome Film Festival returns from October 15th to October 23rd 2009 with films, retrospectives, encounters, exhibitions, concerts and the attendance of great national and international stars.
At the root of the fourth edition there will be again the combination of popular appeal and quality cultural programming. It’s a recipe for success; remembering that at the [...]
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