(photo: salt cod in Spain.  thanks to thekitchn.com for the photo)   NY Times Dining and Wine – What a concept: bring your mother to America so she can make pasta at your restaurant (slave labor or love?). Saveur – Pictures of Italy during Christmas from a magazine that adores Italian food and life. Food and Wine – How […]

(photo: bottle of 500 ml Chiappetta Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Calabria, courtesy of Chiappetta web site) Located just north of Cosenza in Calabria, San Vincenzo La Costa is a comune made up of small villages including San Vincenzo, Gesuiti, Giuranda, etc.  San Vincenzo La Costa is famous for growing olives, like much of Calabria, including the large oval shaped Caroleo olive which […]

  (photo: Bagnara, located in the Province of Calabria) We’ll be taking a break from writing about the Italian life over the next few weeks.  Please enjoy our current content, search the site, and utilize our A-Z index! Enjoy the remainder of the summer! Vince

  It’s a little known fact the many Italians enjoy American style “junk food.” Specifically, and I’ll use an anecdote to describe the phenomena, during our summer trips to Italy my Italian relatives would beg my mother to bring over US style foods such as: pancake mix with artificial maple syrup, Hershey’s milk chocolate bars, Ritz crackers, etc.  In fact, our family would arrive […]

(photo: grilled and baked zucchini with breadcrumbs, parsley, and grated Grana Padano) Let’s face it you can’t always eat what you desire to eat.  For example, I crave salt more than any other substance on the planet and if it was up to my primordial brain I’d consume it primarily through cured pork products like coppa, mocetta, and prosciutto.  There […]

I always wanted to conduct research on the people of Calabria and get to the bottom of what makes people living in places like France, Spain, Greece, and Italy so healthy with long, healthy, lives.  There’s lots of anecdotal evidence pointing to stress level, diet, universal pensions, environment and climate, etc. and being the food obsessed we like to think diet […]

  (photo: final dish: large rigatoni with braised short ribs in tomato sauce) Short (beef) ribs are cut from the plate and rib section of the animal and are one of my favorite additions to tomato sauce during the winter months.  Short ribs are easy to prepare, relatively inexpensive (especially with the bone in), and make an ideal meat for […]

You’ll be hard pressed to find a person who does not enjoy the occasional jazzed up hamburger.  You can approach a serious Foodie, a European transplant, and even a borderline vegetarian and they’ll all light up when you mention the idea of putting together a perfectly grilled hamburger with the appropriate toppings!  In my view, the hamburger is the greatest […]

  (photo: The Scordo.com World Cup flag; unfortunately, we didn’t have a reason to bring it out this past World Cup) I wanted to wish our loyal Scordo.com readers a Happy New Year and Buon Anno! and also list our top ten articles of the year.  We posted over 200 articles this year but the following stories were deemed most […]

  Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Auguri di Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!   Cheers, Vince from Scordo.com