I am going to Italy and I found a cooking class here
http://www.sprachcaffe.com/english/s...abria/main.htm.

I wanted to learn how to cook Italian but is Calabrian cooking typical
Italian cooking or is pretty different?

wrote:
> I am going to Italy and I found a cooking class here
> http://www.sprachcaffe.com/english/s...abria/main.htm.
>
> I wanted to learn how to cook Italian but is Calabrian cooking typical
> Italian cooking or is pretty different?

You should ask Guisi who posts here. She is an American, living in Italy
and also runs a cookery class. She is very knowledgable about Italy and its
food.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:59:36 -0700 (PDT),
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> wrote:

>I am going to Italy and I found a cooking class here
>http://www.sprachcaffe.com/english/s...abria/main.htm.
>
>I wanted to learn how to cook Italian but is Calabrian cooking typical
>Italian cooking or is pretty different?

Italy is still regional. I'd say it's Italian Southern Cooking...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R...Calabria_3.svg

Read #3 "Foods of the Italians" to understand more
http://www.foodbycountry.com/Germany...pan/Italy.html


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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

> ha scritto nel messaggio
...
>I am going to Italy and I found a cooking class here
> http://www.sprachcaffe.com/english/s...abria/main.htm.
>
> I wanted to learn how to cook Italian but is Calabrian cooking typical
> Italian cooking or is pretty different?
>
Calabrian cookery is very different from other regions except perhaps the
regions that abut it. Calabria likes HOT. Some of the Calabrian foods I
have bought at food fairs, etc. have been the hottest things I've ever had.
Good, but very very piquant.

Calabria was always a poor region, so the menus tend to reflect that. There
is lots of fish, of course, but the land itself is very stony and dry.

It's a region whose kitchen I like even if I don't know it extensively, but
it resembles little of what foreigners think of when they think Italian
food.

You should do a search on the terms Calabria cooking or cookery and see what
they eat.

I've been learning the various regions of Italian cookery for 35 years and I
am nowhere near done. Twenty regions and twenty different takes on Italian.

Giusi > wrote:

> > ha scritto

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> Calabrian cookery is very different from other regions except perhaps the
> regions that abut it.

I wish people would refrain from replying to obvious spam.

Victor

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:54:31 +0200, (Victor Sack)
wrote:

>Giusi > wrote:
>
>> > ha scritto
>
>[spammer's disingenuous stuff snipped]
>
>> Calabrian cookery is very different from other regions except perhaps the
>> regions that abut it.
>
>I wish people would refrain from replying to obvious spam.
>
I only looked at the link because you said it's spam, but if I had I
still wouldn't have thought it was a spam message.



--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

> wrote in message
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>I am going to Italy and I found a cooking class here
> http://www.sprachcaffe.com/english/spam study spam and more
> spam/calabria/main.htm.
>
> I wanted to learn how to cook Italian but is Calabrian cooking typical
> Italian cooking or is pretty different?
>
Don't go there. I know people that have been robbed in Calabria. I hear
there are still highway men on the road stopping cars and robbing people
too. My wife's family is from there and she won't go.

Go to northern Italy

"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> Giusi > wrote:
>
>> > ha scritto
>
> [spammer's disingenuous stuff snipped]
>
>> Calabrian cookery is very different from other regions except perhaps the
>> regions that abut it.
>
> I wish people would refrain from replying to obvious spam.
>
> Victor

I also thought it was spam on reading it..But learnt a little about what
Giusi had to say....

Bigbazza (Barry) Oz

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:48:41 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>Don't go there. I know people that have been robbed in Calabria. I hear
>there are still highway men on the road stopping cars and robbing people
>too. My wife's family is from there and she won't go.
>
>Go to northern Italy

Did you know that Italy is about the size of Arizona? I was
absolutely blown away when I read that.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:48:41 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>>Don't go there. I know people that have been robbed in Calabria. I hear
>>there are still highway men on the road stopping cars and robbing people
>>too. My wife's family is from there and she won't go.
>>
>>Go to northern Italy
>
> Did you know that Italy is about the size of Arizona? I was
> absolutely blown away when I read that.
>

Many more people though. I've never been to Calabria but I do know that
crime was higher there in the past. There are a few parts of northern
industrialized Italy that are not any different that driving along the NJ
turnpike. The older cities though, are breathtaking.