Cooking is Simple * Eating is Rewarding
At our Visitors Center, people are always interested in why and how we prepare food, create recipes, and match oils with food. Here are some of my simple tenants for IL Fiorello.
- Use good, clean, and fair ingredients. This is also the hallmark of Slow Food and sensible eating
- Don’t complicate your life by making complicated dishes every day
- Use only certified extra virgin olive oil, enjoy the wonderful aroma, bitterness, and pungency
- Try all the different varieties of our Extra Virgin Olive Oil, expand your palate
- Don’t combine lots of ingredients as this tends to muffle each one
- Use ingredients that are simple, clean, and fresh
- Organic if possible
- Seasonality is very important, eat with the season
- Shop at farmers markets, as much as you are able
- Plant a garden in your backyard, on your back porch, or in your window sill.
- Eat lots of vegetables and fruits
- Eat with color – red, orange, yellow, green, and purple
- BALANCE – acidity, sweetness, savory, bitter, salt
- BALANCE – grains, proteins, fruits, vegetables, and oils
- Ignore the current food fads
- NO pre-packaged foods or pre-prepared foods
- NO fast food
- Enjoy well prepared fresh foods
- Let fresh food speak for itself
- Use your garden as your pharmacy
Ciao
Ann