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INTERNATIONAL: BREAD OF THE WEEK 131: TUSCAN PAN DI RAMERINO

 

LINK to Recipe for Tuscan Pan di Ramerino

LINK to another Recipe for Tuscan Pan di Ramerino

A SWEET BREAD FILLED WITH RAISINS AND ROSEMARY USUALLY SERVED AROUND EASTER OR AT ANY TIME!!

INTERNATIONAL: ITALY: Sweet Masters: Giada makes Cannoli, Ice Cream Sandwiches and Slushies the ITALIAN WAY!!

LINK TO Giada in Italy - Sweet Masters

Florence, Italy is the city of masters: master chefs, master artists, master scientists, master visionaries. Giada De Laurentiis learns the art of cannoli-making from a southern Italian pastry maker living in Florence, then heads to her home away from home to create a unique cannoli filling with Chocolate Amaretto, as well as a few other masterful desserts like Baci Ice Cream Sandwiches and Aperol Spritz Slushies.

ITALIAN - Tuscan Arts Festival - August 23, 24, 25 - Food, driinks, art and MORE!! Florence, Siena, Lucca and more!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

LINK to Tuscan Arts Festival

Gelato - Italian American month

Italians produce gelato, sorbetto and granita. 

Wiki's definition and history of gelato

Gelato

  

 

Comments by this author compliments of LaCucinaItaliana magazine.

Gelato is different than average American ice cream and according to the author there are three different regional schools of Gelato:

Sicilian: fruity, nutty, granular, finely broken ice crystals (western Sicily), slushy (eastern Sicily), dairy based, no egg yolks, great flavors (almond, hazelnut and pistachio). First gelato panini is made by splitting open round, egg, lightly sweetened brioche rolls and slather with gelato!!!

Sicilian Gelato article and recipe 

Veneto: (NE Italy) milk, cream, fruit, (gelato often served in balls)

Venice Gelato restaurants 

Tuscan:  milk bases without cream, custard bases and water-based fruit flavors

Florence (Tuscan) gelato festival 2012 (video)

29 recipes for Gelato below at LaCucinaItaliana magazine

http://lacucinaitalianamagazine.com/recipes for Gelato

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ROME (LAXIO) GELATO RESTAURANTS

Buon Appetito

  

    

About Tuscany 1 Holiday - May 23 - 27th, 2012 FOOD 3

Gelato Festival in Florence in Tuscany May 23-27, 2012. When you google this you get conflicting dates. 

Firenze gelato festival in Italy.  Google chrome comes with an automatic translator button.

What is gelato?  How is it different from American ice cream?

Gelato is lighter than traditional American made factory ice cream.  Gelato contains 4-8% butterfat vs 14% for ice cream in the use. Sugar content in gelato is 16-24% and ice cream is 12-16%.  It is more expensive because it is more like making home made ice cream vs factory made.

When you google this festival you get some conflicting dates.

Where did gelato come from?  Italy?  Not just Italy. Came from Rome and Egypt. Appeared in Florence and then went to France and so on ...

Walks of Italy photo above and information on gelato can be found at 

http://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/food-and-wine/what-is-gelato-italian-ice-cream

All you want to know about gelato, flavors, ingredients and more!!  

You have to visit this site:

Gelato flavors decoded

And see partway down the page for some other cool links. 

Photo from link below (24 things to know about Gelato) 

24 Things to Know About Gelato

piacere il gelato