by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 1, 2011 | Art History, Food | Cooking
Wishing you an excellent 2011 January 1st 2011, from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia.I have just learned how to prepare patacones, plantain cooked in the Caribbean way. A recipe from Lai, the maid from Gases del Caribe office in Cartagena, department of Bolîvar in...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 22, 2010 | Food | Cooking, General
The best Christmas turkey ever! Yesterday we had a pre-Christmas celebration with family and friends and ate a succulent turkey! After eating too many dry turkeys in our lives, we arrived to a unique recipe that we would like to share with you. You will get a tasty,...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 16, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
The Art of Cooking! In the latter part of the 15th Century, the great chef, Maestro Martino de Rossi, who worked for both the Princes of the State and the Church, wrote what seems to be the first truly cooking manuscript in Italy. Following the humoral theory of the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 8, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking, Inspiration |Thoughts
Painting and eating Two treatises were written in the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The first one in Florence in 1436 by the great humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, entitled Della Pittura (On Painting), and the second one in Rome around 1460 by the “eminent”...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Oct 17, 2010 | Food | Cooking
Art and cuisine in Tuscany, of course! How can we leave without underlining the marvellous food we had. “At Studio Italia”, proclaimed Yves in that ebulliently Gallic Yves manner, “we eat very well, but we do not gain weight!” Hmmm. We’ll let our scales be...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Sep 10, 2010 | Food | Cooking, General
In the spirit of our three last posts on Vico, we invite you to create the recipe of the month. Since it is Fall (Spring in Australia) and an excellent season for mushroom hunting (in the wild or at the market) why not a cream mushroom soup? We did ours with these...
