La Cucina Italiana and Blog from Italy’s Recipe Contest

October 31, 2008 · Filed Under Food and Wine Friday · 12 Comments 

Here are the results of the first ever cookery contest held on Blog from Italy which was held in conjunction with the US version of prestigious cookery magazine, La Cucina Italiana.

It was a pretty close run thing, but the taste testers, including yours truly relished their taste testing tasks, and graded the resulting recipes on the basis of:

  • the overall appeal of the recipes,
  • ‘Italianness’
  • originality and suitability to the fall season.

I suppose you must be itching to know who the outright winner is, and thus the recipe which tingled our collective taste buds the most.  Here goes: Read more

Soup Testing

October 23, 2008 · Filed Under Italian Food · 4 Comments 

The results of the La Cucina Italiana and Blog from Italy soup contest are coming closer.  Owing to son in hospital and the commitments of the other testers the taste testing sessions have yet to be completed, but are proceeding as I write.

All the testers have been tasting away, including me.  Here is a little update to give you a taste of what this here blogger has been cooking up.

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Send in Those Super Recipes!

September 12, 2008 · Filed Under Food and Wine Friday · 3 Comments 

This is a reminder to say that from 12:00am GMT September 12th to 12:00 am GMT September 19th 26th you can send in your entries to the La Cucina Italiana and Blog from Italy recipe contest. Read more

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