![]() Taken from her bellissimo cookbook Old World Italian, Mimi shares two recipes for your own Christmas feast – Italia style. Under her husband’s insistence, for New Year’s Day it will be cotechino pig leg knuckle served with lentils, as is tradition in Italy. It is a highly subjective journey through Italian food’s ‘greatest hits’, a book for everyday and family use. I have to reserve it now for Christmas, people queue on the street outside with their vouchers.” Her Christmas feast will start with tortellini in brodo, then capone stuffed with sausage and wrapped in pancetta. Mimi buys Pandoro – a Veronese Italian sweetbread – from Pasticceria Gigi in Torino – “It’s so beautiful, it’s golden inside and covered with icing sugar like a white cloud. It’s very special and old fashioned – the ultimate Italian food.”Ĭhristmas is going to be a traditional Italian affair, which, naturally, means more food. You have the tortellini, the lasagne verde, the hams, the charcuterie. Her favorite gastronomic spot? “Emilia Romagna. Plus nothing beats a great Italian trattoria.”Īs a foodie, the move was a no-brainer for Mimi, whose new cookbook ‘ Old World Italian: Recipes And Secrets From Our Travels In Italy’ is a “love letter” to the pasta alla gricia of Roma, the cheese of Piedmont, and the seafood of Venice the Thorissons discovered while road-tripping across the country. Italy is very welcoming, it’s less formal than France. Although we ordered more cutting heads from the machine shop, they had a hard time delivering to us in a timely manner. Why Italia? “I love the Amalfi Coast, Sophia Loren, Napoli, the energy, the family, the passion. Cappelletti Makers are Back In Stock Posted on Maby Bernie Last Christmas was our busiest ever and we sold out of all sizes and styles of our Cappelletti Maker. I thought, ‘If I ever move to Italy, I’d want to be in the biggest piazza bursting with energy and all the life.’” Reader, the Thorissons packed up their bucolic French lifestyle, eight kids, dogs and all, and drove 11 hours to Torino. “Three years ago in August we saw this beautiful apartment on the piazza in Torino. The bustling capital of Piedmont, Torino, came calling after nine years of living a countryside fantasy in a grand 19th Century house nestled among the vineyards of Bordeaux, where Mimi, a half-French, half-Chinese city girl who grew up in Hong Kong and then Paris, first began blogging about rural food and life. You need to have a wooden pasta board, which holds the pasta as it’s porous and has the best temperature for rolling as well.” It’s like a gym, it’s very physical work.” The best lesson of pasta school? “Don’t roll your pasta on a marble surface. I enrolled my daughters and then enrolled myself. “A lady where I buy my pasta in Torino does classes for children, these little five year olds. Of course: what else would a celebrated food blogger, television chef and queen of rustic cookbooks have top of her list. What was the first thing that Mimi Thorisson did when she upped sticks with her husband and eight children from the vineyards of Médoc, France, to the piazzas of Torino? “I got myself a pasta coach,” she laughs.
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