Food as Medicine in 2021 Last week I was honored to participate in a very interesting event as as speaker. It was a Virtual Summit on “Food As Medicine: the Ancestral Way”, held by Happy Bellyfish , an online healthy cooking school. I admire their approach to eating consciously, and a great way to explain…
Raw or cooked? Two spoons a day keep a doctor away! Seems easy, doesn’t it? Olive oil is famous around the world for its healthy properties, and as part of a Mediterranean diet. Italian cuisine wouldn’t be as it is without the Italian olive oil. Pure extra virgin olive oil is best consumed fresh and…
Good olive oil and good bread… An excellent combination! What can be more cozy, homelike, more Italian? Ingridients -3 cups all-purpose or grain flour, be ready to add some more as needed -2 teaspoons of yeast (instant) -2 teaspoons of sea or Himalayan salt -1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil (Martum will suit for this…
Refreshing&Healthy Salad dressing with olive oil In Italy, no special dressing for a salad is usually used. Extra Virgin olive oil and a good vinegar to accompany the salad – that’s old classics that always works. However, sometimes a quickly prepared delicious dressing can add elegance to the table! We just a refreshing, truly Sicilian…
Salmoriglio In Sicily, high quality olive oil is present in almost every dish. But if we had to choose only one – the one and only – it has to be salmoriglio sauce. It goes best with fish, in Sicily often with swordfish, but with a small alteration will serve for meat as well. It…
7+1 little big secrets of the Italian cuisine They are as lightweight as they are powerful, these little handy plants that make such a big difference! Zest and flavor of the Italian cuisine to a large extent are due to these secret ingredients, invisibly present in almost every dish. 1. Basil Green, delicious and summery…
