Mellowing in Italy - Siena, Saturday 2007 May 12
May 12th 2007 Cooking lessons again. Today we learned to make Aquacotta soup – literally “cooked water”, once an equivalent of “stone soup”. This version has a tomato base, is cooked for a long time, and is served over stale bread, topped with parmesan. The second dish, beef stew, is similarly an old recipe, originally made by the wives of brick-makers. Tradit
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