History of italian mostarda fruit preserve wih mustard seeds and cooed must
Categoria: Historical Cooking
For Bianchino and Sibillone Pellegrino Artusi Pellegrino Artusi was a wealthy man, born in what would become Romagna in pre-unification Italy in the early 1800s. A man who basically had two lives, split by a violent event that happened on…
It was the early 1600s when Marquis Vincenzo Tanara in Bologna wrote the splendid L’economia del cittadino in villa (The citizen’s economy in the villa), which we have also mentioned in other articles. Tanara, a magistrate and marquis in the…
In the cities of Emilia, Romagna and Le Marche, the shouts of the Thirty Years’ War resounded, and the Baroque spread through churches and buildings, while the Este family held court in Modena. It was the 1600s, and far from…
Underwater cellars, wines matured in the sea, vague hints of saltiness, robust young men with long beards sporting a mixed Italo-Anglophone dictionary, shaking glasses with swollen chests like in the best marketing offices in Milan and Parma… Actually, sea wines…