Recipes from Lorraine and Alsace, France

OK so here's a funny thing. I cooked a meal from Lorraine and Alsace, France a long time ago. Like, almost two years ago. The main reason I went so far down the alphabet was because a few months before that I found some frog's legs at a local deli that carries the occasional package of exotic meat (I got some alligator filets...

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Recipes from Lombardy, Italy

Are you sick of Italian food yet? Of course not, no one ever gets sick of Italian food, even though we really have a kind of bastardized version of it over here on this side of the pond. Anyway this is my third week in a row of doing an Italian menu--this week we're in Lombardy. Milan is in Lombardy; that's where a large...

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Recipes from Liguria, Italy

Hey guess what, I achieved a Travel by Stove first this week! That's right, I nearly burned down my kitchen. Not only was it a Travel by Stove first, it was also the first time I've ever done anything like that at all, ever. I know you're wondering what happened, but first I have to talk about Liguria, Italy. Liguria...

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Recipes from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

So after last week, I needed to restore my faith in cheese. I'm pretty sure I can still smell that appenzeller. Blech. Anyway, what better place to look for a wonderful, non-stinky new cheese than Italy? I've still got a few regions leftover from earlier in the alphabet, so it's time to backtrack. This week we're going to...

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