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Cucina Linda: You can tell a lot about a GirlCook by looking at her kitchen…
These large Capodimante plates with hand-painted dimensional cherubs, handpainted flower centers and gold painted surfaces are dreamy, whimsical, sweet and …
What gives a kitchen its unique character? Well Handpainted Italian Pots turned into utensil holders & tiny Italian dishes painted with a cook’s sayings are the kinds of things you’ll find in my kitchen. …
Just found this. How can you resist a cookbook from 1931 compiled by GirlCooks named Ida, Harriet, Zorada and Irene?
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Spring Wire Whip from the 1900’s
I use this whip for egg whites. I first heard about this whip in the cookbook, “Cleora’s Kitchens,” a memoir of Cleora Butler, born in 1901, she traced her ancestry …
One of my newest finds, this is a version from 1950, a little worn, but often called “the standard Italian cookbook,” translated for American cooks. Everytime I use it, it sheds another precious piece …
"El Jaleo!"
I knew when I walked into this tiny glass-enclosed restaurant in Buffalo, NY, that serves every kind of traditional Italian dish, from giambotte to cioppino, homemade bread, great pasta fagiole, good wine--the works, that something was about to happen. There 
