a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

Not my blog, but I found this description interesting:

http://mrsgrumpywrites.wordpress.com...november-2014/

"Who *is* this woman with the baby?"

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a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

On 2014-12-05 18:26:42 +0000, Jack Campin said:

Not my blog, but I found this description interesting:

http://mrsgrumpywrites.wordpress.com...november-2014/

"Who *is* this woman with the baby?"

Many years ago when we had lunch in Cremona my daughter -- then 3 --
wanted to eat gnocchi, so we did, and they were very good, possibly the
best gnocchi that I've eaten. I don't suppose she knew what gnocchi
were, but she liked the sound of the word (or ñoquis, as my wife said
it). However, she probably did know who the woman with the baby was.

We were there for a very mundane reason. We had just stopped on the way
further east to change some money from dollars to lire. That turned out
to be a long and complicated operation involving telephone calls to the
head office, because the bank couldn't understand why people who
weren't American and didn't live in the USA would want to buy lire with
dollars. As that couldn't be done before lunch we decided to visit the
centre of Cremona while the transaction was being arranged.


--
athel

a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
On 2014-12-05 18:26:42 +0000, Jack Campin said:

Not my blog, but I found this description interesting:
http://mrsgrumpywrites.wordpress.com...november-2014/
"Who *is* this woman with the baby?"

Many years ago when we had lunch in Cremona my daughter -- then 3 --
wanted to eat gnocchi, so we did, and they were very good, possibly the
best gnocchi that I've eaten. I don't suppose she knew what gnocchi were,
but she liked the sound of the word (or ñoquis, as my wife said it).
However, she probably did know who the woman with the baby was.

We were there for a very mundane reason. We had just stopped on the way
further east to change some money from dollars to lire. That turned out
to be a long and complicated operation involving telephone calls to the
head office, because the bank couldn't understand why people who weren't
American and didn't live in the USA would want to buy lire with dollars.
As that couldn't be done before lunch we decided to visit the centre of
Cremona while the transaction was being arranged.

Did you hear any music? There was a lovely bit about Cremona on US TV
yesterday 8-)


--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

But do yourselves a favour, don't eat that infamous mostarda.

I have to disagree. True cremonese mostarda is the best of its sort,
though it is a bit difficult to find really good one in Milan.

Besides being eaten with bollito (boiled meat), it is one of the main
ingredient of "tortelli di zucca" (the other is of course pumpkin, i.e.
zucca). There are different schools about the way they do it in Cremona
and Mantova (I believe the mostarda in Mantova is made with mashed
apples, while in Cremona they use whole fruits), while the best
pumpkins come from Mantova.

Just spent Saturday morning preparing some 200 tortelli. Actually the
pumpkin was cooked (whole, once "excavated" removing the seeds) in the
oven for 2-3 hours on Friday. Then the interior was mixed with minced
mostarda and amaretto crumbs and let lie for the night. Saturday we made
some 800 g of fresh pasta (500 g flour and 4 eggs) , and filled the
tortelli (like ravioli, size a bit larger, closed in plain triangular
shape), "blanked" them (passed in boiling water for 1 min) then frozen
the majority.

To be served with molten butter and sage, and sprinkled with crumbled
amaretti.

The best mostarda is the one made with mandarines (although for unknown
reasons the one with only cherries is more expensive), sharp-hot enough
to go "up through the nose". To be eaten with lot of bread.

a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

There is no place like lulungomeena

a visit to Cremona; violin making and food
 

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Magda wrote:

... There is no place like lulungomeena
Why, they eat mostarda for breakfast there?

No, it's the typical thing eaten for supper (cena, in the evening), but
could be also eaten at lunch/dinner (pranzo, at midday of a holiday)