{"id":9100,"date":"2016-08-12T01:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2016-08-12T01:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T01:18:16","slug":"squid-oregano-trifolati-radicchio-fennel-flowers-peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=9100","title":{"rendered":"squid, oregano; trifolati, radicchio, fennel flowers; peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sicily.<\/p>\n

It was a\u00a0Sicilian meal, well,\u00a0creatively<\/em> Sicilian. Calamari<\/em> are definitely a Sicilian thing, and the wine was Sicilian. Lots\u00a0of herbs familiar in Sicilian cooking showed up, like oregano (here from the Madonie Mountains, Sicily); basil (the\u00a0Hudson Highlands, in New York); and there’s no dispute about the importance of anything fennel in Sicily, here fennel flowers\u00a0(the Catskill Mountains, New York); there was olive oil of course (not from Sicily, but at least from southern Italy, Puglia; there was pepperoncino (the plains of Turri, Sardinia, the next island north of Sicily), and there was\u00a0garlic\u00a0(New York again); lemon was important (here the California Central Valley?); and there were also tomatoes (very\u00a0Sicilian\u00a0– via Spain – even if these\u00a0came\u00a0from the area in New Jersey the Delaware culture called,\u00a0Tuphanne [cold water], today’s\u00a0Old Tappan); there was one large zucchini, or at least a relative of the zucchini (this one grown in the Green Mountains of Vermont); finally, the northern Italian radiccchio of which there are some traces in Sicily, at least these days<\/a> (had that\u00a0not been the case, this little Sicily conceit would have been a deceit; the radicchio I used came from the our<\/em> own<\/em> north, that same farm in those\u00a0same\u00a0Green Mountains).<\/p>\n

As for the dessert, peaches are Italian, although\u00a0the\u00a02 we had\u00a0were from the\u00a0Marlboro Mountains in New York (the farm is owned by\u00a0an Italian-American family).<\/p>\n

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*Chicories are<\/em> grown in Sicilian gardens<\/a>, even though they\u00a0appear to have been an invention, or re<\/em>-invention of the north of Italy.<\/p>\n

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