This weekend I made it to the Earth Market I mentioned a few posts ago. We got there a bit on the late side (around 12:30 p.m. and it closes at 2 p.m.) so the pickings on some things were starting to get a bit slim, but we did get a chance to sample various [...]
Archive for June, 2010
To market, to market
Posted in food, living in the Belpaese, Milan on June 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Out of line
Posted in amici, living in the Belpaese, Milan on June 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How are y’all enjoying this wacky summer weather? Is it wacky where you are? Here it is chilly and rainy – shades of November – and has been like this much of the last week. One thing that pulled me out of my weather funk was an email I received from a Canadian friend from [...]
Can you be a locavore in the city?
Posted in food, Milan on June 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A few months ago, I bought some organic milk at the supermarket and only noticed when I got home that it had the tag line “milked right in your neighborhood!” I had to laugh out loud. It was a laughter filled with irony and sadness because at that time there had been a huge oil [...]
Spaghetti al limone
Posted in food on June 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This is a simple summer recipe that is much tastier than you’d expect. I’ve seen many variations on spaghetti with “lemon sauce” that range from merely squeezing a bit of fresh lemon juice into a bowl and mixing with with olive oil and salty pasta water to others that add ricotta or heavy cream. I [...]
