Friday, January 9, 2026


  A simple dish that when done well is delicious. Linguine with fried zucchine. Just two cloves of garlic and an anchovy filet - naturally from Sciacca, Sicily - flavors the oil into which the al dente linguine are added and stirred. For this dish I sprinkled incanestrato cheese, or Sicilian pecorino that is sharper and more flavorful than the ubiquitous and rather pedestrian pecorino romano. The result was pure culinary poetry.

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