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This post is the second in a series of entries featuring Silvestro Silvestori’s bicycle trip from Marsala to Lecce, Italy (Post 1). Follow along with Silvestro to learn about many of the culinary features of Southern Italy. Join our Facebook group for the latest updates!
Silvestro Silvestori owns and operates The Awaiting Table Cookery School in Lecce, Italy. See more of his pictures, get recipes or sign up for a class at www.awaitingtable.com.
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 Delicious shrimp and green bean salad at The Woodward. The holidays have been great and I’m sure that New Year’s Eve will bring more fun, but for the time being, I’m taking it easy. On my way back from seeing Patrick Dyer Wolf play a concert at Rockwood Music Hall in New York’s East Village, I ran through a list of all the great meals that I’ve had in the past couple of weeks. It wasn’t short.
When you boil the holidays down, and take away all of the presents that get bought and exchanged, what’s left for most people are meals shared with family and friends. Eating together (and sometimes even cooking together, though that can be an intense exploit) is one of the few rituals practiced globally and enthusiasm about that communal experience is the basis of our site. Eat With Me is built on a respect for food and our growing community of bloggers come from diverse backgrounds to share their own perspective on it.
In an effort to detox from this whole Christmas celebration, I’ve put together a series of photographs taken at different holiday meals over the past couple of weeks. The first few are from Harvard Common Press’ Christmas party at the newly opened Woodward Restaurant at the Ames Hotel. It was a great meal (thanks, Bruce Shaw, President and Publisher!). The next few are from Christmas eve dinner, and then some from Christmas lunch. Finally, a hot pastrami sandwich from Katz’s Deli, warming up an otherwise cold, rainy day in NYC, before seeing Pat play his show at Rockwood. We’re hoping that Pat’s going to write a jingle for Eat With Me, but for now, enjoy his tunes (also available on iTunes)!
Still hungry? Continue reading Christmas Recap & Detox
 See bottom of post for map attribution. Silvestro Silvestori owns and operates The Awaiting Table Cookery School in Lecce, Italy. See more of his pictures, get recipes or sign up for a class at www.awaitingtable.com.
Within walking distance of the charming historical centre of Marsala, two wineries exist, virtually side by side. All you have to do is walk the pretty-purple-flowered, white-capped coast down to the port, then hang a left and you’ll find the wines of Marsala, old and new. The only problem is trying to decide which is which: one is Florio, making hyper-traditional Marsala, albeit with new, high-end packaging. The other is Donna Fugata, perhaps one of the most sophisticated wineries in all of Italy, making wines based on grapes whose names don’t appear anywhere on the front label.
Still hungry? Continue reading The South Cycle Series– Marsala: How to Brand A Cash Cow
 Simple table settings at the original American Flatbread Restaurant in Waitsfield, VT.  The thermostat in my car read -8 degrees. Despite near-Arctic conditions, I had the pleasure of spending the last 24-hours in Waitsfield, VT, the home of The American Flatbread Company. I’ve been to Italy. I’ve been to the Little Italy’s of a bunch of American cities. I’ve never had a better pizza than I had last night at American Flatbread. That is not an exaggeration.
Aside from residents of, and visitors to, Vermont, Virginia, and Oregon, where American Flatbread has its restaurants, most people know of the company through its high quality frozen pizza sold at many major grocery stores, including Whole Foods. I’ve enjoyed frozen American Flatbread pizza since I was in middle school (15+ years ago), but I had no concept of the story behind the brand until recently.
Still hungry? Continue reading American Flatbread Company: Honest Food, Honest People
In case you missed it, Eat With Me has a contest going on– we’re giving away a free copy of Ken Haedrich’s PIE cookbook to the user who submits the best photograph of a pie (you MUST have taken the photo, but you don’t need to have baked the pie). Submit your entries to Matt @ [...]
 Nutella and Banana Crepes with Ice Cream and Chocolate Mouse in the background at DeSantos (139 West 10th Street) Hot dog eating competitions are old news. The antics of Adam Richman, the man behind Man vs. Food, leave me wanting more. What’s left in the realm of extreme eating?
Well, whatever it is, it’s found in New York City. And, I think I may be onto it. After a refined meal at the West Village’s acclaimed DeSantos (139 West 10th Street), dining in their seasonally-enclosed garden area on duck that “I wouldn’t find at, say, a Chinese restaurant”– according to our waiter– a team of four intrepid eaters took their cue and journeyed to the heart of NYC’s Chinatown.The closest thing to the streets of Hong Kong that I’ve found in the United States, with a close second in San Francisco.
Before I move onto the Chinatown fare, let me assure you that the Roasted Long Island Duck with Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Light Apricot Vin Santo Glaze that I ate at DeSantos was, in fact, delicious, even if the waiter shortchanged the Peking Duck that I would eat the next day. Writing this, I’m inclined to mention that eating duck is usually a once-every-couple-of-months thing– in this 24 hour period in NYC, I took a big part in eating two ducks. Sorry Eat With Me contributor/cousin/vegan Alex for my callousness.
Still hungry? Continue reading No Messing Around: 24 Hours in NYC
Well, we’re still here! Did you miss us? As often happens this time of year, days have passed quickly and it’s been a little while since the last post. Coming soon! Silvestro journeys via bicycle from Marsala to Lecce, Italy, and explores the cuisine of the region. You can look forward to some wonderful photography and [...]
When the fall arrives in Salento, familiar fruits and vegetables come with it, like old friends that have left town and returned again.
Faces light up. There is lots of smiling, happy greetings.
‘We’ll have to have you around for dinner, now that you’re back and all’, folks seem to say, loading up their shopping baskets.
Still hungry? Continue reading La Cotognata Leccese: Quince Paste in the Lecce Style.
 The first snow fell in Cambridge last night, coating the evergreen trees outside my window with a fresh white layer. It’s not too cold yet, but the driving precipitation kept many indoors. Those of us who did brave the elements quickly remembered how slick the walkways and roads around here get, especially when the large sand/salt trucks haven’t coated everything– I’m not complaining! The snow is so much cleaner this time of year.
Luckily, we were brought some warmth and memories of summer by Silvestro’s post about tomato sauce yesterday. Although Eat With Me’s readership is international, and increasingly so, the vast majority of our current readership comes from the US. With Silvestro, we’re lucky to have a new international contributor. His knowledge of Italian cuisine and keen photographic eye will mean many great posts to come! I’m particularly looking forward to reading about a trip that Silvestro took by bike through the south of Italy. Stay tuned!
Oh, and, as I’ve said before, consider stopping through Lecce, Italy on your next trip for a week long course at Silvestro’s school, The Awaiting Table. Maybe we’ll organize an Eat With Me group trip?! Could be a great way to meet some major foodies!
While Silvestro is making tomato sauce, I’m going to supply you all with a recipe for Vegetarian Chili sin Carne from Harvard Common Press’ Bestseller Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook. Slow cookers are the perfect way to simplify the cooking process, minimizing active cook time, keeping your kitchen cool at all times of the year, and allowing you to escape for a day outside in the snow or sun, while your meal cooks.
Thanks @arandall for the photo.
Still hungry? Continue reading Vegetarian Chili
Silvestro Silvestori owns and operates The Awaiting Table Cookery School in Lecce, Italy. See more of his pictures, get recipes or sign up for a class at www.awaitingtable.com.
Come late summer in these parts, you still see older folks gathering in small groups out in the countryside.
Someone will have an old radio on, set to some station where all the music was recorded back when full, lush symphonies were all the rage.
An old stew pot will be bubbling away on a nearly-forgotten flame. Water for the pasta will be coming to the boil. Someone will be tipping green beans, while someone else will be grating some strong sheep’s milk cheese. Still off school for the summer, young tan kids will be everywhere, chasing lizards or riding old rusty bikes down dusty roads.
It’ll be time to make the annual tomato sauce. I love it so much that I volunteer my services to anyone and everyone that will have me. I could be yours for a plate a pasta, a few sauteed snails and the contents of a reused water bottle of local malvasia.
Still hungry? Continue reading La Passata Del Mezzogiorno: How To Make Tomato Sauce in The Southern Italian Style
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