Polenta night
Recent weekend enabled me to spend time under the wacthful eye of Edda Yole Gherardi the matriach of the family cooking polenta.
A typical northern Italian dish takes 40 minutes of stirring while those waiting can chat and have a few drinks.
Ben, the patriarch who is looking fantastic for 90+, thinks it will be too soft “You will need a straw to drink it”. Arguments are de rigour.
Heading to Italy for the new year and trying to catch up on some words, Professore Bronson attempts to find the best Italian for “Straw”.
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But the old man knows the best taste is off the stick!
The cook eventually gets to hydrate with the best wine, Gherardi Merlot of course!
Polenta the mix of cornmeal and buckwheat. The stew of goat and and a salad of ciccoria. Heart warming.
The youngest and the oldest generations sucumb to cards while Vineman goes to bed!
Ciao
Vineman
February 25th, 2010 at 3:12 am
The man in te picture above is Bronson Gherardi, who lived in Argentine in 1992 and took classes with me in secundary school? please, i2 would like to keep in tooch with him
Luis Zanazzi
December 10th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Good, I really miss you a lot!!!
I’ve took a cooking course which included wine taste.
I do really would like to share some polenta and wine with you all!!!
April 4th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
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July 21st, 2011 at 2:57 am
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