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In case you were wondering, even the Seven Deadly Sins sound better in French. Take Gluttony, and repeat with me: La Gourmandise.

How can something like this be so bad?

That might be one of the secret powers of the French Cuisine: the magic of making anything juicier. Deadly Sins included.

Piero

André Lambert, La Gourmandise

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Chandra Livia Candiani, Italian poet, Il silenzio è cosa viva (“Silence is a living thing”). Savoring the silence, not bad at all.

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THE MISSING INGREDIENT

BAKE IT LIKE BECKHAM

Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year for 2023 is “hallucinate” – a verb that gained an additional meaning this year by pairing it with the effects of Artificial Intelligence in our lives.

That’s my queue to talk about fungi!

In The Mushroom Boom Anne Thériault runs all the old and new tricks of the fungi world: “from beer to vegan leather, fungi are increasingly being used in new ways”. Luckly for us: there’s still a lot we don’t know about the mysterious organisms

Picture: Netflix

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THE BOOK

Make It Rustic

★★★☆☆

First things first, I love the artwork here. Second, if you loved Polpo (the Soho restaurant or the book), this is by the same family. Tuscan cooking is the main character here, inspired by Russell Norman's new restaurant, Trattoria Brutto. The book is praised as a celebration of “one of Italy's most beloved cities, Florence, and specifically the bohemian district of Santo Spirito”. Humble ingredients, explosive taste.

Brutto. A (Simple) Florentine Cookbook by Russell Norman
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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week. This time I might have spent too much time on Instagram

🦃From Julia Child to Kristen Kish: 45 Years of Great Thanksgiving Hosting Advice From Chefs 🌸Pink Noise is White Noise, but in Pink 🦆This Roasted Celery Root Looks Like Duck’s Breast (★recipe) 🥮Buy Some Eggs and Bake this Fluffy Taiwanese Castella (★recipe) 🟨15 Minutes Salted Caramel Sauce (★recipe) 🗺️Do You Like Shortcuts? Here’s one for Croissants (★recipe) and one for Baguettes (★recipe) 🥧knead Some Fancy Pie Crusts (★recipes) 🇮🇹Giulia’s Italian Thanksgiving: you have to try it! 🍎The Invisible Apple Pie (★recipe) ⭐️The 13 Michelin 3 Starred Restaurants in Italy (if I were you, I’d book for Uliassi and Reale; forget Bartolini; have something real at Francescana and Da Vittorio)

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FOOD FOR LATER

‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness
Katherine Rowland / The Guardian

The industry claims to offer answers for all our stress and symptoms – but we still lack the fundamentals of wellbeing. How did this happen?

Milk Has Lost All Meaning
Yasmin Tayag / The Atlantic

In the era of veg-alternatives milk’s identity is hard to pin down.

➤ Last week's most clicked link was about cutting vegetables like a pro. And that's all for today.