“Enthroned on an enormous piece of zucchini bread and topped with curling sheets of fried zucchini that looked exactly like bacon, it was clear that the chef is having a ball in the kitchen.”
“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?”
“You’ll never starve as long as you’ve got an egg in the house.”—Evelina Scariati Pullano (aka Nana) Growing up, I spent a lot of time in both the kitchen and garden with my grandparents. Nana and Papa grew piles of zucchini and used each and every one of them along with their flowers. I’m told [...]
