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Tidbits

Tidbits of information about Italian cuisine traditions, places, customs and ingredients.

Purple Carrots

Purple Carrots, Carote Viola, in Italy are also known as ‘carrots from Polignano’, a seaside town in Puglia, southern Italy, and also from Viterbo, a town in Lazio, central Italy,…

Guanciale, Italian Cured Pork Jowl

Guanciale is a cut of meat, later transformed into cured meat, typical of Central and part of Southern Italy, but it finds its greatest fame in the town of Amatrice,…

How to Re-Use Cooking Water

Don’t throw away the water in which you cook pasta, rice, vegetables and the likes: you can use it again and give it a second life right in your kitchen…

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