by Danielle Oteri
November 11, 2009
“I’m convinced that Americans just don’t know how to cook eggplant and that’s why it has such an awful name. In Italian, an eggplant is melanzana. It sounds like a seductive Sicilian dance. In French, it’s the very regal aubergine. Isn’t that nicer than eggplant?”
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by Good. Food. Stories. Contributor
August 5, 2009
“A popular 19th century dish, it was named after the Sicilian composer Bellini’s highly successful opera Norma. The ingredients were simple and noble, the combination sublime. Pierfrancesco made it seem effortless, and truth be told, it is.”
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