Food For Thought..
Stories about family, loved ones, and good
friends
that have shared good food with us along the way.. Your
stories could be here.. send them to us - we would love to see share
them.
Everyone has food related stories, and when you smell something wonderful
cooking or even when a kitchen disaster happens, you all of a sudden
remember a dear friend, parent, grandparent or someone special that has come and
gone along the way. Like my mother’s good friend Sophie. Every time I smell
cabbage, sausage, pork chops cooking for fresh pierogi’s I instantly think
of Sophie. Read more about her in our story.. “Dancing with Poles”. Check
out what happened the time I served “Red Wine in the Mess Hall” – that story
is here too. You get the idea. Share some of your treasured moments and the
recipes that go with them. Don’t forget.. the RED menu to the left of this
text is your key to finding all the treasures at Powerful Recipes. ENJOY 
Got Bread?
In Italy, bread is such a basic part of life that every restaurant
automatically sets it on the table and imposes a cover charge
(coperto) to cover its cost. We are talking... good, fresh, hearty
bread here!
It is reported that Italians eat about half a pound of bread a day; the highest consumption in all of Europe. This translates to 4.5 billion pounds of bread a year. It’s not surprising that Italians express many of their sentiments through sayings and proverbs which use bread as their common metaphor. Here are a few of those metaphors, and if this interests you, I will send you all that I remember. Just let me know, and please feel free to add a few you might know also.
1. As good as bread (a big hearted, down to earth person)
2. Without bread, everyone is an orphan
3. The announcement of war is given by cannons, but bread always has the last word (when there is no more bread, the war is lost)
4. Essere pan e cacao- To be like bread and cheese with someone (to be as thick as thieves)
Check out my recipe for hard bread-Never throw hard bread at your sister. -ENZO
automatically sets it on the table and imposes a cover charge
(coperto) to cover its cost. We are talking... good, fresh, hearty
bread here!
It is reported that Italians eat about half a pound of bread a day; the highest consumption in all of Europe. This translates to 4.5 billion pounds of bread a year. It’s not surprising that Italians express many of their sentiments through sayings and proverbs which use bread as their common metaphor. Here are a few of those metaphors, and if this interests you, I will send you all that I remember. Just let me know, and please feel free to add a few you might know also.
1. As good as bread (a big hearted, down to earth person)
2. Without bread, everyone is an orphan
3. The announcement of war is given by cannons, but bread always has the last word (when there is no more bread, the war is lost)
4. Essere pan e cacao- To be like bread and cheese with someone (to be as thick as thieves)
Check out my recipe for hard bread-Never throw hard bread at your sister. -ENZO
