Best cook in Italy!

Claudia is an instructor at the Apicius-the culinary institute of Florence. Our class is a "Master" class of contemporary Italian cooking which means that you use only what's fresh at the time, and you don't cook it for hours. The red sauce I made is not cooked. Fresh tomatoes, blanched, seeded, and blended with olive oil until it froths. The class is small; 3 girls from Texas, 3 of us from Arkansas and a guy from S. Carolina. We are teaching Claudia our southern accents!

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June 2nd 2006
Happy June 2nd! It's a holiday here. They celebrate their unification date and have parades and some stores close. Sort of like our 4th of July. We've toured a museum, been to the Leonardo exhibit of his machinery, and to the leather store (well, maybe only one of us went to the leather store). Enjoy the pics and I'll try not to sound too teachery. ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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