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Week-End Offer in Bologna

 (Only for the Members of the Association)

  • 2 nights in a selected B&B or hotel 
  • 2 Events (lunch or dinner at different Cesarine’s)
  • 1 cooking lesson (with tasting)
  • 1 gastronomic shopping tour in the centre of Bologna (with a personal shopper)
  • 1 one-year subscription to Home Food

                                                          Contact the Association for further information and reservations (see: Contacts)

Invito a cena dalle Cesarine

Il Resto del Carlino, Edition Emilia Romagna, 9 March 2007, “Invito a cena dalle Cesarine”, pag. 42. Regional information daily, circulation: 220.000 copies. It forms, together with La Nazione & Il Giorno, the Quotidiano Nazionale (combined ...
Invito a cena dalle Cesarine
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Presentation of the book "The Italina way"

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Presentation of the book

"The Italian Way. Food & Social Life "
Department of Sociology, "A. Ardigò "Faculty of Political Science - University of Bologna - Strada Maggiore 45 - Bologna

Outside of Italy, the country’s culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table.


Within the volume we find a reference for Home Food - The Cesarinas, and during the presentation will act as a discussant Prof. Egeria Di Nallo, President of our association.

 

From: "Food and recipes from the world of Guercino"

 

Guercino, The hare hunting, detached fresco, 1615-17, Pinacoteca Civica di Cento

 

Very common in the Ferrarese territory till the 1980’s, the hare hunting was especially hard but pleasant. As the fresco suggests, dogs were important to make the prey run and tire it out.


Recipe for bean soup
Ingredients for 10 people:

500 g of beans; 6 slices of bread; 1 onion; 230 g of soft lard; a handful of pepper; salt to taste.

Directions:

Cook the beans in water until they are very soft (almost breaking apart). Take the six slices of bread and place them in a saucepan and add cold water until the bread is covered; add a bit of salt. Pass the beans through the food mill until you have nothing left but their skins. Cook the onion in the lard, add the bean pulp, the pepper and the salt. Boil the soup for some minutes and pour over the bread, cook over low heat.

more in "Food and recipes from the world of Guercino"

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At home of a Cesarina
We are already in March, time flies between a traditional dish and another. The days brighten of the spring colors. The recipes take on new contours, those of raw materials of this period. The dishes are different and each place holds its typical secrets. Each Cesarina invites you to sit at her table, choose whom consulting the schedule below.


For details, please contact the Association by phone (+39 051 220797) or by e-mail (info@homefood.it).
If you wish to learn to prepare traditional dishes,
you have only to attend the Cesarine’s cooking lessons in Bologna.

If you wish to share ideas with them, you can find the Cesarine on Facebook,
looking for “Cesarine HomeFood”.

Have a look at our calendar of events!

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The Association for the Safeguard and Exploitation of the Traditional Gastronomic-Culinary Wealth of Italy, with its Home Food project sponsored by the Ministry of Agricultural Politics and various Regions of Italy, and in co-operation with the University of Bologna, exploits and spreads the traditional food culture strictly linked to the culture of the typical products and territories.

In this spirit it is possible to become guests of the Italian families and taste foods cooked by the Ladies of the house, real repositories of the old culinary ways and methods.

The Guests (see To become a User Partner), as are the Ladies of the house called Cesarine (see The Cesarine), are members of the Association.

The Cesarine, whose number constantly increases, are available from North to South of Italy (see The Italy of Home Food).  

Since its foundation in April 2004 more than one thousand gastronomic Events have been organized.

The Association for the Safeguard and the Exploitation of the Traditional Gastronomic-Culinary Wealth of Italy has also founded the Home Food Editions, whose mission can be resumed in “good food for good thoughts”. Typical traditional foods become symbol and metaphor of a good way of being together, and this is the main objective for which Home Food was born, with the desire to encourage and promote the development of the “good” at different sense levels.