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Salume in Northern Italy
Ten days in Italy with Brian Polcyn and Nic Heckett for a salume tour of northern and central Italy—primarily Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna. Damn, Italy is beautiful. There’s a reason...
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Salume Tour, Part 2
A salumeria in Bologna, hanging culatello, hams, coppa I rubbed the brass pig snout in Florence hoping to rid myself of bad Florence karma (first time there, my girlfriend left me for another guy,...
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Dry-Cured Ham at Home
Ham, dry-cured for eight months, removed from bladder (this photo by iPhone, the ones below are by Donna) On a recent trip to Charleston, SC, to promote Twenty, my first stop, thanks to a tweet from...
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Salumi
Still slammed after weeks away. Part of todays work is going over 2nd pass proofs of Salumi, now scheduled for August 27th publication. First pass illustrations all out of place. Also need to check...
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Italian Interlude—Portofino
A pizza in Portofino, chili oil served on the side. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Between crazy-busy travel and much work all July, and then a work-travel assignment in France, Donna and I took a...
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Italy Arrival
Perfect fried zucchini blossoms. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Donna and I had begun 12 days of a work-vacation (what other kind of vacation would we do without kids?) by flying to Rome, then heading...
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Salumi, It’s Here!
Amazon is always ahead, damn them! They'd been advertising an August 27 release date for my new book, Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing, but suddenly I'm getting twitpics from people who have...
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Italian Canederli with Walnut Levain
Italian Canederli. Photo by Erin Harris. I'm in Traverse City, Michigan, at Pigstock 2013. Herewith, a guest post from Chef Erin Harris. Erin began her culinary adventure in her hometown of London,...
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