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friday feast: a taste of tuscany
mood: 
hungry
hungry"The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. " ~ Mario Batali
"Tuscany Delights" painting by Lisa Lorenz.
Buon Giorno! Come sta?
Are you in the mood for la cucina italiano? *kisses fingertips*
Recently, I heard about a new molto delizioso book at Diane Lockward's blog -- The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany by Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli (Bordighera Press, 2009). Scrumptious food served with provocative poems (with their Italian translations no less)! What more does one need in this life?
This tasty little collection is almost as good as taking an Italian lover. Not that I would know about that sort of thing. *cough* ☺ But I do have a fertile imagination, a lust for fine poetry, and an eager palate-in-training. Cavalieri and Pascarelli contributed their favorite recipes, those "that were once purely Italian and are now Italo-American" -- Appetizers, Soups, First Course, Second Course, Vegetables, Salads, Desserts --while 28 of their Italian and American friends provided the poems. Like any good feast, the fare teases the taste buds with spicy, savory, pungent, sweet, sour, and salty -- all the flavors and emotions that constitute the best food for thought.
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chipper
contemplative
bouncy
hopeful
