Bar and Schiacciata Today I’d like to introduce a bar that I enjoyed recently. Ops Caffe, an associate shop of Tutto Bene Bar, is unexpectedly located in Coop, a suburban supermarket. It’s a bookstore as well, and the fact that it is located in a supermarket keeps this bar very busy with customers. It’s said that the busier the bar is, the better their caffe is, because their coffee beans stay fresh and fresh water is constantly going through the machines. At the banco (bar counter), customers disorderly call out their orders like “Coffee!” “I’m having macchiato!” “I’d like macchiato, too, but with more milk!” It amazes me to see […]
I interviewed Mr. Nishino in a short-term Gelato Internship Course. Mr. Nishino runs his own gelato shop in Japan. As he was willing to learn more about Italian gelato, he became a gelato intern for a month at a very popular gelato shop in Florence. The owner of the shop, Mr. Francesco, made an ice cream cake for him to celebrate his birthday on the very day of this interview. He came back to school with the cake and enjoyed the delicious treat with his school mates. (Mr. Nishino’s comments) This has been a great experience for me! Instead of studying on my own, I came all the way to […]
On Sunday we had cooking classes. Italian desserts: polenta love, tortellini with ricotta and black truffle pecorino cheeese, etc.. I would single out as a true love polenta traditional cake when you try to fall in love at first bite. Hard week full of events, but also the beautiful’re sad because I was last here. On Saturday I’ll go back to Serbia. I’m gonna miss all this much, friends, instructors in all. We had learned about their knowledge of wines, visit a winery. From the lessons from knowledge of wine we had had a test in the last lecture. Eight bottles twisted in aluminum foil so as not to know […]
We had a very interesting weekend, a lot of friendship and parting with our friends who had returned to Japan. We have organized him a small party on the occasion of his departure. Kazu safe journey and I wish you all the best. I hope we meet again, goodbye. Monday began with the Italian lessons that would have later on the lessons of cooking and preparing the next Beef carpaccio with rocket salad and parmesan cheese, Sardines in becafico, etc.. We also had a shorter story about the origin of carpaccio,this dish was created by Giuseppe Cipriani 1950. He was a Venetian magnate,owner of Harrys bar in Venice. Visit cheese […]
Monday. lessons from Northern cuisine 1. Today we cook Risotto with cuttlefish ink, Piedmontese potato gnocchi with leeks,tomatoes and parmesan cheese, Milanese marrowbone, Radicchio trevigiano brasato, Venetian tiramisu. it was particularly interesting to see the process of preparing rice and that funds are used for the risotto, for example, mushroom risotto should be used fond of mushrooms etc. a story about tiramisu is also very interesting and it has eaten the famous seducer Casanova. We had Italian lessons before and after maternal Grandparents in the meantime we visited trator where we had lunch was wonderful and very tasty. I tried the spaghetti ala arabijata and Saltimbocca ala Romana. Wednesday and […]
Monday. Start was an Italian lessons, after that we went to Astoria hotel where we had lessons in cookery. Dishes of Southern italy. Mushrooms and artichokes in oil, N duja sauce, Cutlets sardines with Mediterranean sauce, Parmesan with eggplant purple, Bocconotto strawberry with vanilla sauce. Tuesday. Italian lessons, walking around Florence and the failure of as much ice cream as they are excellent. explore the place where we live, we found quite a trattoria, restaurants and super markets. Every evening one of the roommates preparing dinner. Italian lessons, a lot of new words and terms we have homework becomes very interesting to me to learn Italian. I visited a bookstore […]
We began this week exploring the city. We saw the most important sights of Florence, we visited the market, the cathedral. we had the first lesson cooking Tuscan cuisine. In my group has our nine, seven of the Japanese, Taiwanese and me. We learned how to make artichoke. Florence steak, fresh pasta. Had the first lesson of the Italian language, welcome lunch, the second part of Tuscan cuisine, we made chicken liver crostini,crostini lard and rosemary,crostini with tomato,speled soup Ggarfagnana,pappa al pomodoro,veal shank roasted and gremolata and Cntuccini of prato. We had an excursion to visit Rufina, we went to the estate and the wine cellar, where we got a […]
CONCORSO Here comes the last lesson of the Culinary art for professional chef course. Just like every course, there must be an assessment. I think you can feel the stress pouring out of the photos today. My classmates paid a lot of effort and attention into cooking all dishes to perfection. They must remember the recipes by heart. Even the Professor was not joking much today. The ambience was almost as stressful as inside a kitchen on the busy day. However, there is a motivation waiting for them because the winner will get a big bottle of wine which Professor Francesco has prepared it himself. The dish must be presented […]
