Posts by Tuscan Chef

No I don't go to rome. At home, yes sometimes we dress salad before, with the result that someome does not eat it. Maybe you are right rome is different.

Was the restaurant sort of trendy. I often go to Venice for work and I go to place where local are going and there are always red and lot of venitians have red with fish. Also some new restaurant now give red. At do spade (reccomended)...

There are NO italian dressing in Italy. You will never get your salad predressed in any Italian restaurant or family, unless it's a cheap place or a supertouristic place. The rule here in Italy is that you serve the ingredients for...

I hope we are in time for your tomato sauce. Try to do it our way (I am writing you from Tuscany and I run a cooking class). First, try to get the best tomato you can. Don't look for a specific one, has to be tasty, a little mushy, red....

Can you give me more description of the use of coffee, what it means "pulls the flavour out", We never ever tried here, we are traditionalists......

Bolognese should not be a tuttifrutti of various meat. We use ground meat, no pork and add a pair of sausages. Because our students would not be able to find sausages or the correct ones, we indicate in that case to use part of the...

Last time we were in Venice, we noticed locals had red wine to pair with fish, while non venetians (tourist) had white wine. I asked the owner, a friend, and he explained that traditionally fish and red wine is considered better, also...