A multi-author blog. A journey to find for kinship and contamination within the different ways of cooking food because food provides nourishment for the soul.
Ice cream has very ancient origins. Suffice to say that in Persian Empire’s period people, during warmer seasons, used to pour grape juice over some crushed ice, recovering a bit from the summer heat, which at that time used to reach quite high temperatures.
In a few days, both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church will celebrate Pentecost, also known as the Feast of the Holy Spirit, the final moment of the Easter Season.
The pizza is definitely one of the most popular foods around the world. There is no country that doesn’t serve it in a thousand of different ways. The history of pizza is now known almost at all, but if in doubt, please let me refresh your memory.
For our Easter installment on Soul Kitchen, I’ve come up with a type of food that crosses geographical, cultural and religious borders and is similarly prepared between Jews, Catholics and Orthodoxes alike: Easter bread with eggs.
Before you start reading this article I must warn you about one thing: in no time you will have your mouth watering. Just like that. Because those I’m about to tell you are some of the most famous (and delicious) cake shops in the world. Who is famous and appreciated already just for the fact that he’s from Napoli, one another because instead of just “simple” cakes his creations are pure art, these chefs are bold dreamers who put in their final creations, all the love they are capable of. Here you are the top 5.
Mandelbrodt is an Ashkenazi Jewish dessert and to most people in America is exactly the same as biscotti, the kind of cookies that in Italy would go under the name of cantucci instead: so many names for one single recipe!
All around the Italian countryside, March is the perfect month to go foraging wild fennel. Wild fennel grows spontaneously, entangled by the roadside, in unfarmed abandoned fields, basically everywhere, provided that the weather is mild.
After almost three years in London, I can say that the traditional breakfast, better known as Full English Breakfast, doesn’t frighten me anymore. My name is Angelina, I have been living in London since 2011 and I work as a cook in a small Italian Delicatessen shop, since 2012 I run my own cooking website at www.angelinaincucina.com. I cook Full English Breakfast almost every day now and I can tell you that I am close to know it to perfection.
