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You favourite food blogger, aka me ;), will be part of an amazing experience this Sunday in London!

Teamed with gorgeous Julia of A slice of Cherry Pie, we’ll cook together a 3 course meal for 4 for The food 2.0 Project: Nom, Nom, Nom, with a menu that we simply called “Where England meets Italy”, based on fresh, seasonal English ingredients pared with Italian food or preparations!

Altogether with 24 other participants, all excited about it, and determined to have load of fun cooking all together!

You will here more and more about it in the upcoming days!

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It may look out of season, as we ate mainly during Christmas time, but is there a season for something good?

Among the wonderful array of Italian torroni, this nougat from Alba is remarkable for its special softness, delicate crumbliness and full flavour. This is thanks to the ingredients which have been used for generations: Piedmont hazelnuts, clear comb honey, white cane sugar and a dash of vanilla. Slow, extended cooking gives this product a remarkable flavour and a special kind of crumbliness.

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Lesson 2: know our preserves

In Italy we love savoury preserves: olives, artichokes, peppers, mushroom, tuna, anchovies, sauces for pasta… We have a wide range of preserved food that we add to our meal almost daily.

Best preserves are made with genuine, healthy, ripe ingredients, treated and preserved only with natural agents, like vinegar an/or oil and nothing artificial added, like the San Lorenzo preserves!

When do we eat them? Often as appetizers, paired with cured meat or fresh buffalo mozzarella, but we can have them even as side dishes, heated over a low fire or straight from the jar.
Imagine a hot summer afternoon, cicadas all around, a little fresh air only under the trees where your dining table is… What’s best then is eating something fresh, that can go from a nice salad with some olives, some cured meat with a side dish of preserved onions, sun-dried tomatoes, chilli peppers filled with anchovies and capers, and maybe roasted peppers or porcini? And why not some preserved fish? And this will make a complete meal, varied and perfectly tasty! A perfect Italian meal…

Then at night, when it’s fresher, put some water to boil, add pasta (now that you know what to do with it) and once cooked, dress it with one of our sauces. Then, again, a perfect Italian meal!

And now you are on the right trail to eat like an Italian, for the rest of your life!

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I have to admit it! I cannot conceal it anymore! I’m among the organizers of tonight Girl Geek Dinner Italia in Milan (sold out since weeks!)
In the last 3 months we were sneaking out and meet on Thursday night, secretly, changing place every week, to avoid stalkers and curious! Like a secret sect!
As you know, we delighted few Girl Geek Dinners in the Uk with our Italian wine, and we would love to do the same all over Europe!
Tonight we’ll greet people with a glass of Prosecco di Valdobbiadene!

Are you among the attendees tonight? Twit what you think and fell about it!
Are you an organizers of Girl Geek Dinners around Uk, Ireland and Continental Europe? Write me (sara [dot] maternini [at] gamil [dot] com): we would love to get involved and please you with some Italian wine!

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Do you think action like this and that can be the real solution to the problem or they are just a palliative???

Is it enough to move fast foods far from schools or ban junk food ads?

Or that the real “remedy” it may be lay in the change of culture and the education to better nutrition, beginning from home cooking?

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Last month the cool people of Trusted Places launched a competition among their reviewrs with 5 San Lorenzo Hampers as the prize.

And we made 5 new enthusiasts follower!

And one of them is really enthusiast! Check it out!

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 Do food trends really exist? Or what really matter is just GOOD food, trendy or not?

Of course, here at San Lorenzo we believe only in good food, really good food.

But if food trends exist, which will be 2008 food trend in the UK?

We hope Italian, or better, San Lorenzo!

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You are sure asking yousrself why on hearth I haven’t yet went deeper on the subjects I just throw at you last week! Well, you are perfectly right, but, even if I’m actually living in Milan, the London craziness for Christmas Party was actually able to reach me, book me and make me crazy too! Not that I have 6 Christmas party in a row, but I have to say that I had to let down at least two invites! Which is nothing compare to people that go to Christmas party EVERY night from the 1st to the 24th December!

Anyway, tonight there is, I have to say, the one that looks absolutely the most stylish!

Tonight I will be more then honoured to represent San Lorenzo at the Telegraph Weekend Christmas Dinks 2007.

And as last spring, San Lorenzo logo was near Google logo, and we are still giggling about, this time, San Lorenzo Italian fine food is near Veuve Clicquot and Moët Hennessy.

And San Lorenzo has provided Pomegranate Catering with the food for the cocktail!

And as if that is not enough for today, our Moscato d’Asti was featured in a post on The Guardian blog Word of Mouth!

Well, you see? December in London can be really overwhelming!

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I’m trying to remerge form just the middle of an intense London week!
London is already very intense by itself, but if you add up two San Lorenzo Christmas dinner in a row followed by an holiday weekend made of food, theatre (actually what has been defined by every Newspaper as “The hottest play in town!”) and tours around the city (still to come!), well, you can imagine why I’ve decided to write all about it in more then one post! And even why this is just an introduction, revealing nothing more then the facts! Uh, and add to all that, the in this web 2.0 era, where everybody is on facebook and we all love facebook, you spend several hours a day looking up for new friends, catching up with old friends and poking in general! By the way: have you joined San Lorenzo Group on Facebook???
Chronologically:
5th December 2007: launch of the new San Lorenzo web campaign, called, for the moment (and now you’ll understand why for the moment!) DSUGISLP! The most difficult acronym in the world just to say Desperately Seeking User Generated Ideas for San Lorenzo, Please! Soon more about it!
6th December 2007: as I said before, we enjoyed celebrate Christmas with the Guild of Food Writers! A delightful evening, chatting about risotto, Panettone, cheese… Soon more about it!
And then from the 7th, my holiday, but I will send you somewhere else (coming soon there too!!!) if you really feel the need to know about it!

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San Lorenzo is very pleased to announce that this year, for their annual Christmas Dinner, the members of the Guild of Food Writers will taste and enjoy San Lorenzo’s good food, with a nice Cheese Fondue, a superb Risotto with Castelmagno, a nice salad with Goose Breast Fillets seasoned in Olive Oil, and, obviously, Panettone! And drinking fine wines all the way down too: Franciacorta, Chianti Classico, Morellino di Scansano and Moscato d’Asti.

Soon some picture insight!

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