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Feb 5th 2023

So you Want to Make Ravioli

My husband’s family is Italian. His mother’s carbonara helped me fall in love with him. But my first tryst with Italian food happened years ago, in a Publix grocery store, in front of the, yes you’ll …

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Feb 5th 2023

Gigi's Favorite Lamb Roast

You could smell it before you walked through the door. Neighbors gingerly peaked into our windows, their noses wrinkled and their stomachs grumbling. What had triggered their olfaction was the pitter- …

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Feb 5th 2023

Gigi's Winter Hobby: Cake Decorating

It started as an obsession--gorgeous blues melting into sunset pinks, tulips more lifelike than decorative--and it ended as my hobby for this upcoming winter. The Instagram algorithms had decided, cle …

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Feb 5th 2023

Thanksgiving gifts to self, our staff picks:

Thanksgiving is fast upon us, Halloween is around the corner, my mums are blooming, and I keep having a recurring dream (or nightmare) that Time Square’s New Year’s Eve ball might shatter into a thous …

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Feb 5th 2023

Italian Peach Cakes

Italian Peach Cakes are light and sweet desserts reserved for special occasions. They present beautifully and are fairly easy to bake and construct, if you have the right tools. The cake and custard a …

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Feb 5th 2023

Carnevale! Carnevale! Ogni Scherzo Vale!

This phrase is indicative of Carnivale – “Fat Tuesday, a day when every prank is allowed,” a final day of celebration before the start of the Lenten season. My family hails from a pastoral area of Fri …

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Chef Angela Cicala's Walnut Cake

Feb 1st 2023

Chef Angela Cicala's Walnut Cake

Chef Angela Cicala’s newsletter from anticoitaliantravel.com hit our inbox and we immediately needed to bake her Walnut Cake recipe. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of tasting Chef’s de …

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Posted by Gigi Bowers on Jan 12th 2023

Sous-Vide?

JAN 12, 2023 Sous-Vide? Sous-Vide? I …

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