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Scent of Gruyère

November 2, 2009
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I’ve started a new game.  It’s called Say This Isn’t a Food Blog and Then Quick! Turn Around and Write About Food.  I really can’t help it.  I start thinking about dinner sometime around breakfast.  When I was a child, the prospect of having brunch caused me great anxiety because —no matter how much good food [...]

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Asiago and Mushroom Pasta

October 5, 2009
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We recently went in search of porcinis and chanterelles in Asiago, a beautiful village in the “Pre-alp” mountains of Northern Italy.  The idyllic green pastures and soft, sloping mountains were nothing short of breathtaking.  After trekking around in them for a couple of days, I felt fiercely alive… and fiercely hungry.  Though we only collected a [...]

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