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The White Widow – a Punch Abruzzo cocktail
It seems to me that this coming summer everyone will be in Abruzzo.
Some friends are traveling to visit their ancestral villages and towns. Others, like food writer Domenica Marchetti, are leading culinary tours – taking hungry travelers through this pastoral land, sampling local cuisine and visiting artisanal food makers along the way. Travel to this largely undiscovered region is picking up, and that can only be a good thing. The cuisine, rich and borne of the land, is at once hearty and delicate, nuanced and bold. Cheeses, wines, olive oils and truly divine pastries – Abruzzo has it all. Some of Italy’s finest dried pasta comes from there too. And so does one of my favorite liquors, Punch Abruzzo. Read the remainder of this entry »
Crema alla Fragola – Homemade Strawberry Cream Liqueur from Domenica Marchetti
Adri’s Great Blog Cook-a-thon #8
Got strawberries? Got a lot of strawberries? Domenica Marchetti has the answer. Make Crema alla Fragola, Strawberry Cream Liqueur. Welcome back to my Blog Cook-a-thon. I know. You thought I was done with it. It has been a while. Apologies, but the project got away from me.
A couple of months ago cookbook author and food writer Domenica Marchetti posted a photo of a Strawberry Milkshake on Facebook. Remarkably, I had never tasted a Strawberry Milkshake, but I figured that since berry season would soon be upon us it wouldn’t be long before I could try one. Patience after all, is a virtue. In short order Domenica followed her milkshake shot with one of Crema alla Fragola. While I could surely be patient and wait for the milkshake, there was no waiting to start the strawberry liqueur. After all, it needed to infuse for three days. I would not ask Job to wait to get started on that one. Read the remainder of this entry »
The Garibaldi Guard – the 39th New York Infantry Regiment
La Figlia del Reggimento – The Daughter of the Regiment
All’armi!
They called them Lincoln’s Foreign Legion, men from all over the world who fought on the side of the Union. Of the many foreign born patriot units, none is more well known than the 39th New York Infantry Regiment, the Garibaldi Guard.
On December 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union. A house divided. The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter commenced before daybreak on April 12, 1861. The Civil War was on. Our nation was on a course that would sorely test the Union, pitting brother against brother and expatriot against expatriot. Read the remainder of this entry »