The Florentine
This summer, if you
intend to visit Tuscany and florence, be sure to look
for this free magazine, or check their website, you
will find tips and calendar events that will help you
navigate the city with ease.
This month Debi and I are featured on The Florentine
pages...just a few questions about how we met, and
what’s going on with our lives.
We Are Back!!!
we are back in Los Angeles.
Our trip has been a once in a lifetime experience:
Deb, Me and the Girls finally took possession and lived in the house that my grand father promised me over thirty years ago.
I gave my family a Tuscan Home, surrounded by Olive and Cypress trees, we had breakfast staring at Deers and Boars (yes damn it, boars!)
roaming in our garden, our fireplace worked twenty four seven for over two weeks, and we had a well deserved meat and wine Holiday.
We came back to an
overwhelming response to our People
Magazine piece...
The website have been slowing down a bit for this
reason, things are happening faster than we expected
and we are already working
on a new version of the site, optimized for this
amount of traffic, and also a mobile mini-blog, so
you can carry us everywhere...how lucky are you.
We have over seven hours of footage that we will
start editing for some new upcoming episodes to be
posted starting in a bit more than a week.
Welcome Back to Under The Tuscan Gun!!!
Gabriele and Debi
The Tuscan Gun on People Magazine
The Tuscan Gun is coming
to life.
Debi and I hosted a lunch this past Sunday in our
home in Los Angeles. A few celebrity guess attended,
a lot of food was cooked and eaten, a lot of Chianti
bottles were opened and finished. It was truly a
happy celebration.
The piece will come out the 2nd or 3rd week on
January, and one of my best kept secret recipes will
be revealed: Pappa al Pomodoro. This Tuscan Peasant
Soup made of stale bread and tomatoes is one of those
dishes that look very easy on paper, but then you go
to the restaurant and you are always served something
different; usually it comes to you in form of tomato
soup with a slice of bread...with some garlic, if
you're lucky...how sad!
This is why, as soon as the article will come out,
Debi and I will cook this dish and post it as the
first episode of our second season.
Oh yes, we're done for
the moment. Deb is shooting this week, and in a few
days we will leave for Italy, where we finally enjoy
a few weeks of family life in the country. And again,
food and wine, lots of both.
We are already working on a shoot list for our trip,
as we want to acquire as much footage as we can, to
be featured next season on the show.
Thank you all for your incredible support! This
project started almost as a joke less then four
months ago, and the feedback is somewhat humbling.
Remember, it is not about being a chef, or thinking
that being a cook is less then being a chef...it is
about feeding!
So, these coming
holidays, feed your loved ones, fill them up, serve
good wine, make them smile. And come back to visit us
next year, we'll give you more of all of this!!!
Ciao,
Buon Natale and Buon Appetito
Gabriele and Deborah
The Tuscan Gun on Epicurious.com is finally online!
The videos are finally online, you can stream them directly from this post, or visit Epicurious to watch them, and maybe browse around for some Holiday recipes.
More
Clips from
Favorite
Kitchen Equipment
Tablesetting Tips
Making Tuscan Beef Stew
The four clips in this post are mainly
focused on our kitchen and our approach to cooking;
the last clip is a 4 minutes edit on my Beef Stew
episode...in case the edit is too short for you to
get a grip of it, go visit our post for the recipe.
Ciao
Fatherhood 2.0!
but still it was very energizing to come across the last issue of the Time magazine.
In the Life - Society section there is a very interesting article by Lisa Tackeuchi Cullen and Lev Grossman:
"Fatherhood 2.0. As dads have begun to act more like moms, old notions of masculinity have come into question."
Oh, if I do relate with all that!!!
Stay at Home Dads: Why Real Men Change Diapers.
When I arrived here is
the States I had no visa and no job.
Deb was working like cazy, shooting during the week
and flying to Canada over the weekends for some movie
she was on at the time.
I had about three weeks to get adjusted, then she got
pregnant!
We were very much in love, but still...it was a
"Knocked Up" situation!
It used to be: "Tuscan Cook Book For The Pregnant Male"...
I started writing this "cook book" over five years ago, when Deb got pregnant with Evelina.
The original Title was "Tuscan Cook Book: For The Pregnant Male".
It was my intention to reach out to all the young new parents of my generation, especially men that do not cook habitually, and share everything I know...everything I feed my family with...explain how easy it is, how natural, how healthy....
I will let Deb tell you the story on how we ended up deciding to be in control of our creativity and do everything on our own...I'm sure her story will come out very entertaining!
I am posting here three general rules that I always follow when I approach a new recipe, and how I interpret the kitchen I am cooking in: I hope this post will be useful.
Next post: how to grocery shop for Tuscan food!
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