Recipes from my quarantine cooking challenge
If you are my mom, my friend, my mom's friend, or someone who likes pictures of pasta, you may have participated in my quarantine cooking...
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Sara Cagle
Mar 19, 20207 min read
How the coronavirus lockdown has changed the way I cook, plus my favorite #quarantinecuisine recipes
I would’ve thought that suddenly finding myself living through an earth-altering pandemic would change my priorities. Maybe I’d ponder...
Sara Cagle
Mar 13, 20206 min read
A long overdue food-shop crawl in Florence, a last hurrah before the coronavirus lockdown
Back in January, during the kind of sunset stroll in Florence that always makes me sigh with admiration and fantasize about making...
Sara Cagle
Feb 4, 20203 min read
February is a good time to be a dessert lover in Florence
In the fall, when Florence's supermarkets and pastry shops were full of schiacciata con l'uva — the city's famous flatbread studded with...
Sara Cagle
Jan 4, 20208 min read
What I cooked in December, in all of its holiday gaiety and lack thereof
Three weeks ago, I finished my first semester of culinary school. It was a whirlwind six months of chopping, cleaning, and standing over...
Sara Cagle
Dec 31, 20198 min read
My favorite culinary techniques from Cooking Light and Molecular Cuisine
I had some doubts about the two classes I'd be taking at the end of my fall semester in culinary school. First, there would be Cooking...
Sara Cagle
Oct 28, 20197 min read
Turning over a new leaf in November — plus some recipes
October was not my month. After a week of eating everything in sight in Sicily, I returned to school at the beginning of the month to...
Sara Cagle
Oct 12, 20196 min read
The extreme act of eating in Sicily
There was blood everywhere. Pooled on the ground and into buckets. Crusted on fishermen's boots and in their fingernails. Swirling in...
Sara Cagle
Oct 2, 201910 min read
What it's like to work in a restaurant kitchen for the first time ever
I was so unsure of myself the first few days of working in a restaurant kitchen that I might as well have never cooked anything before in...
Sara Cagle
Sep 17, 20193 min read
My favorite bready thing in Florence doesn't involve cheese, cured meat or cow stomach...
It involves grapes. Tons and tons of sweet, squishy, in-season grapes. It's called schiacciata all'uva, and it's a fruity twist on...
Sara Cagle
Sep 12, 20195 min read
Mom's visit to Florence
I realized many moons ago that my mom will always love me no matter what, that she is the most important person in my life, and that I...
Sara Cagle
Aug 8, 201911 min read
Tradition of Italian Food 1: Takeaways and recipes from my second culinary course
Before I knew I was going to Italy or even considering culinary school — and when I wasn't following recipes from my favorite sites like...
Sara Cagle
Jul 25, 20194 min read
A tomato a day (at least)
You've probably been seeing a lot of red lately. Not because you've been blinded by rage or experiencing optical troubles (at least, I...
Sara Cagle
Jul 16, 201913 min read
Officially three weeks into my journey as a culinary student
On the first day of my first culinary class, Introduction to Professional Cooking, I put on my chef get-up for the first time, laughing...
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