Recipe & Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 4: Pasta alla Cinghiale: Tuscan Wild Boar Sauce

  Pasta con Sugo di Cinghiale (Wild Boar Sauce) (See Fresh Pasta recipe below) Ingredients: For the marinade (to marinate the boar) This marinade can be used also for rabbit, venison, pork, veal, elk, ostrich and wild game birds (duck, … Continue reading

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Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 4: Pizza Napoletana (Neapolitan-Style Pizza)

Starting with the dough we made and kneaded the previous day (made with “00” flour and the “mother starter” from Toscana Saporita–buy a small jar and bring it home, feed it and you’ll be making amazing bread, pizza, and focaccia … Continue reading

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Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 4: Porchetta

Porchetta time! In the past 10 years, Porchetta has seen a sudden rise to fame in the U.S., though it has always been done in Italy, where utilizing the entire animal is more a part of life. While the area … Continue reading

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Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 4: Biscotti & Millefoglie (Napoleons)

To make Millefoglie (1,000 layers) (also a form of “Napoleon”) from scratch, we first had to learn how to make “Puff Pastry” from scratch. This is a challenging process even for professional chefs to get right, and takes practice, patience, … Continue reading

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Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: Day 5: The Hunt for Tartufi Bianchi (White Truffles) With Cristiano Savini of Savini Tartufi and His Truffle Dog, Giotto

This was one of the greatest experiences in a week full of great experiences! This past year (2015), I actually decided to forego the White Truffle hunt, still swooning from the previous year, and instead went off to explore Cinque Terre … Continue reading

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