You have to like someone who measures sugar and wine in egg shells instead of measuring cups. And you have to be entranced with someone who calls an 11th-Century abbey ”home.” What clinches the deal ...

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–is a date that will live long in Lorenza de`Medici`s memory. Even now it is impossible for her to speak without emotion about the storm and its devastating affect on her family`s olive trees at the ...

Scomparsa lo scorso giugno a Milano a 97 anni, aveva all’attivo una trentina di libri, molti dei quali tradotti in più lingue, attraverso cui ha rivoluzionato il modo di raccontare la cucina italiana ...

Cantucci cookies with Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti daughter of Lorenza de Medici. Making organic, handpicked olive oil in Sicily; Tortellini di Soave with chef Mara Marcazzan in Verona; winemakers Luca ...

1. 30-Minute Meals 2 by Rachael Ray (Lake Island Press, $14.95) Still going strong. 2. taly: The Beautiful Cookbook by Lorenza De’Medici (Beautiful Cookbooks, $55) Local retail promotion of the new ...

I learned to make these potatoes, smothered in garlic and rosemary, at Badia a Coltibuono, Lorenza de Medici's picturesque villa and cooking school in Tuscany. Now that people are starting to think ...

I’ve been to a number of wineries that had their own restaurants, mostly in Europe, though. The Chianti estate Badia a Coltibuono has a restaurant with recipes from cookbook writer Lorenza de’ Medici, ...

Move over Marcella Hazan, Giuliano Bugialli and Lorenza de’Medici. Make room on your lofty Northern Italian culinary perch for Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of “The Splendid Table: Recipes From Emilia ...

I visited Badia Coltibuono about 15 years ago to observe the cooking course run by the family matriarch, the regal Lorenza de’ Medici. The classes were informative and fun, Lorenza utterly charming, ...

Inspired by a chance encounter with the iconic Italian cook and author Lorenza de Medici in Sienna 20 years ago, Ross Lusted’s recipe is a reimagination of the traditional Tuscan dish pollo al mattone ...