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THE TREE OF ROSEMARY
When I cook I like to use fresh herbs. In my frontyard there are several. Often, during cooking classes, I take students and guests out to collect...
TALENTS
Many years ago, at the start of Gigliocooking, my dear friend Sue Campbell told me, in an assertive way: "Your school attracts only special people"....
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Marcella Ansaldo
Native of Giglio Island, Marcella has founded and directs the school GiglioCooking in Florence, with simpathy, passion and energy.
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WORDS AND PHOTOS
Last July Mahmoud rang the bell in a hot afteroon, while there was a class held at GiglioCooking.He came in with a kind smile, to ask information about the school. After a few days he was behind the burners stirring pots.For five days. This is what he wrote a few...
“WHAT DO YOU PREFER, MORTAR OR BLENDER?” – “YES!”
- I don't know much.... just enough to be dangerous - It is the Motto of Becky.With the lesson at GiglioCooking she added one more thing to her knowledge: which is the best way to take when we are at a choosing fork. It is YES. Working in the kitchen, at the...
WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH OURSELVES…..
......also when we cook.Leila and Ben are attending the monthly course this October.Leila is a Costarican from USA and Ben is a French from USA.Girl and boy, different, as any of us is, but with a common aptitude: aptitude to happiness. They have both a special...
I HAVEN’T DONE IT SINCE A WHILE…
......posting the happy faces of the guests enjoying their time in the kitchen. It's time to do it again. These are Jack & Laurie.After the very first doubts by Jack, when we met at the hotel to go to the market together - he was a kind of afraid that the cooking...
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PSYCO-COOKING-LAB
TV, magazines, internet: Cuisine is everywhere Yet people - you can also investigate the reasons, which are many and varied - heritage, rejection of the traditional female role, stressful life, lack of time, little confidence in their abilities - cook less and less...
THE BLACKBIRD
We rarely have control over things, or alone over Nature. We have also deceived ourselves that we humans are the only intelligent animal, capable of emotions and reactions. Bah… Spring: my aromatic herbs in the schoolyard are struggling to grow. I know I don't really...
COOKING DEEP METHODS
WAITING cooking means “biological transformation of the nutrients” in most of cases by the action of the heat, sometimes by the mechanic movement, sometime by the action of chemical agents, like salt or acids. For instance: the expansion of the globules of...
ITALIAN CUISINE DOES NOT EXIST
Today the term "fusion" is used as if the "syncretized" cuisine were a new fact. The Cuisine is the most concrete expression of human communication. As such, it is affected - it undergoes and rejoices - from the interactions of the environment: geographical,...
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TRUE HONEY
No list of the ingredients on the label.Honey is made of.... honey.As well as many Italian products, honey is made by only one ingredient. No additives, colorants, thickeners, preservatives.Honey goes to add to a long list: extra virgin olive oil, pasta di semola di...
MAKE YOUR DISH AND EAT IT IN YOUR DISH!
Special Pottery Decoration & Cooking courses Enzo Formisano is the Master of Ceramic who runs Officina Ceramic School. This is his philosophy:The project that I'm trying to realize, with the essential help of my partner Chris, is to create not a traditional...
OGNI TANTO UNA PICCOLA GIOIA CI VUOLE
Foto di copertina gentilmente concessa dall'editore Fernando Quatraro, che ha recentemente pubblicato R.E.GEccoci alla presentazione del libro, nella mitica piazza dei Lombi a Giglio Castello.Arietta fresca, ottimo vino Ansonaco e ottima pizza Gigliese alle cipolle,...
PROSSIMAMENTE A GIGLIOCOOKING…L’ATTRICE SERRA YILMAZ
Serra Yilmaz, attrice tra le predilette dal regista Ferzan Özpetek, interprete per politici e per il Santo Padre, è anche una cuoca eccezionale, che vanta presenze a Shows come Masterchef. Serra sarà a GiglioCooking per una serie di eventi davvero speciali. L'attrice,...
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