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<div><div> <h2>CHAPTER 1</h2> <p>The Gorgeous Things They're Cooking Are Zucchini Blossoms</p> <br> <p>The scent of them is enough to send up a short, sharp thrill in a hungry person. Seething hot beauties, they repose in a great unruly pile on the white linen. The yellow of the naked blossoms shows through the gilt sheaths of their crackling skin. Skin thin as Venetian glass, I think. But I'm far away from Venice. We live in Tuscany, now. As of this morning, we live in Tuscany. I say it breezily to myself as though it was all in a day's work. Yesterday, Venice. Today, San Casciano dei Bagni. And six hours after arrival, here I am already in a kitchen: in the small, steamy kitchen of the local bar, watching two white-hatted, blue-smocked cooks preparing antipasti for what seems to have become a village festival.</p> <p>The gorgeous things they're cooking are zucchini blossoms, fat and velvety, almost as wide and long as lilies. And the frying dance is precise: drag a blossom quickly through the nearly liquid batter, let the excess drain back into the bowl, lay the blossom gently in the wide, low-hipped pot of hot, very hot shimmering oil. Another blossom and another. Twelve at a

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Author

Marlena De Blasi

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565125902

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Cooking, Home & Lifestyle, Memoir

Rating

3.84 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14