If there's one thing I learned while living in Florence, it's that I will never truly be satisfied anymore when eating Italian soul food. Although I have a long lineage of great Italian cooks in my family, nothing compares to the real thing. Only a true, born and raised Italian can cook like an Italian; everything else is purely imitation.
As a part of my time abroad, I chose to register for a cooking and wine-pairing course. What better place to learn to cook than in the motherland? My professor, Giancarlo Russo, was Roman and had moved to Florence in his twenties. He spent much of his youth traveling, learning, teaching, but most of all, cooking. He'd taken culinary courses in Paris, Rome, Boston and several other places. Needless to say, he was the best chef I've ever met.
Despite being a traveled individual, we were in Italy and Italian cooking was his forte. He taught us how to prepare a plethora of different meals. From appetizers like pappa al pomodoro (potato tomato soup), entres like spaghetti alle vongole (spaghetti with clam sauce), or torta di cioccolata (chocolate cake), he knew it all. Learning to cook with an abundance of Italian olive oil, however, was a much harder pill to swallow. If there was one take away from our time together it was that olive oil is healthy oil; besides of course that life is too short to drink cheap wine.
Still having doubts, I decided to investigate further in case he was just a crazy, old, Italian man pouring poison down our throats. According to an article on the Global Healing Center website, titled, "The Benefits of Olive Oil" he wasn't crazy at all. He may have been old and Italian, but he was most definitely not crazy! (At least not in the strictest terms.) Dr. Group addresses many of the benefits of consuming and using Italian olive oil. I found more information still on the Unaprol website, which is an Italian producer of olive oil. Their product contains an abundance of antioxidants and Vitamin E.
My face spoke all the things I was thinking when Giancarlo drowned my pappa al pomodoro (that I had worked so hard on) in olive oil. "Trust Tio Giancarlo, trust" he would say numerous times throughout the summer. Eventually I did learn to trust that crazy yet adorable, old man.
As a part of my time abroad, I chose to register for a cooking and wine-pairing course. What better place to learn to cook than in the motherland? My professor, Giancarlo Russo, was Roman and had moved to Florence in his twenties. He spent much of his youth traveling, learning, teaching, but most of all, cooking. He'd taken culinary courses in Paris, Rome, Boston and several other places. Needless to say, he was the best chef I've ever met.
Despite being a traveled individual, we were in Italy and Italian cooking was his forte. He taught us how to prepare a plethora of different meals. From appetizers like pappa al pomodoro (potato tomato soup), entres like spaghetti alle vongole (spaghetti with clam sauce), or torta di cioccolata (chocolate cake), he knew it all. Learning to cook with an abundance of Italian olive oil, however, was a much harder pill to swallow. If there was one take away from our time together it was that olive oil is healthy oil; besides of course that life is too short to drink cheap wine.
Still having doubts, I decided to investigate further in case he was just a crazy, old, Italian man pouring poison down our throats. According to an article on the Global Healing Center website, titled, "The Benefits of Olive Oil" he wasn't crazy at all. He may have been old and Italian, but he was most definitely not crazy! (At least not in the strictest terms.) Dr. Group addresses many of the benefits of consuming and using Italian olive oil. I found more information still on the Unaprol website, which is an Italian producer of olive oil. Their product contains an abundance of antioxidants and Vitamin E.
My face spoke all the things I was thinking when Giancarlo drowned my pappa al pomodoro (that I had worked so hard on) in olive oil. "Trust Tio Giancarlo, trust" he would say numerous times throughout the summer. Eventually I did learn to trust that crazy yet adorable, old man.
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