La Cucina Italiana and Blog from Italy’s Recipe Contest

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

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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La Cucina Italiana Soup Contest

Many thanks to those of you who entered Blog from Italy’s soup contest with La Cucina Italiana.

Now I’m going to pass the entries, anonymously, to chief Judge Judith Greenwood of Think on It.  With the help of her fellow judges, Alberta, of La Casa San Martino Agriturismo , and food expert Rowena of Rubber Slippers In Italy,  Judith will make up her mind, and then we’ll send off the recipes to those who are kindly helping out as taste testers.

If all the taste testing goes well, the winners will be announced on Friday the 10th October.

By the way, this weeks food and wine feature will take a look at Italian wine, and introduce you to a system which should help you track down that interesting but elusive red not too far from your very own doorstep.

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