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Rowena: a post worthy of gourmet or travel and leisure! I am imagining lunch just an hour past breakfast here in the hi-desert west...and am vicariously traveling while i sit in my boring construction meeting to glorious Lombardi... Batali always rhapsodizes about Lombardi and I must have tasted Lombardian inflections in a couple of his gigs in NYC.
Love your cheese descriptions....love the stinky ones... and those names are so intriguing
Oh, those dumplings are calling my name!
I'm living vicariously through your excursions (and appetite)! This is so exciting!
This makes a hike even more fun, to know that you have such ono food waiting for you. I love that, as you mentioned in your last post, you can just hike up and take a breather in a mountain hut serving such hearty delicious food! The only food I've eaten on a hike is the stuff I brought in or picked off the bushes and trees along the way.
Thanks for sharing!
Rowena!!! OMG - they look so delicious and I'm drooling.. lol. What a wonderful photos of all the good eats - I'm so jealous yet again!!!!
YUM! I have a funny little story about my mom and gnocchi. During her visit to Italy I encouraged her to try gnocchi and she did. A few days later we're out to dinner again and she asks me to recommend something. Her request went just like this, "Will you suggest something for me to eat? I have no idea what any of this menu says. One request though, I don't want any more Noogy." SILENCE... Mom, I think you meant to say gnocchi not noogy
Okay, right now I am setting in a rainy, cold, suburb with nothing but Sonic and Subway nearby. It's just not fair. You've got to stop tortuing us like this. 
Oh it's cheese! (I thought it was going to be a version of cassoulet.)
The sign made me smile actually. It's as though the casolet producers had complained that their product had been left off.
I wonder if you go back next year, there'll be another one tagged on to the bottom in even bigger letters saying: E DEI CANEDELI!!!
suburbanramler - your mention of Batali brings a chuckle because whenever his name is mentioned, I think of that nymag.com article where he said that his ideal last meal would be on a slow boat to the Amalfi coast while enjoying alici marinate, linguine and white wine. Good stuff but it just seems so... pedestrian!
Marie - leftover bread Marie! That's what I like about it. I've had a version with beets which colored the bread dumplings accordingly. Not bad, but I prefer the ones with cheese or speck, swimming in melted butter!
Dumplings... Hiking for dumplings, fine cheese and apple strudel! How wonderful!
he is the pedestrian, LITERALLY [or at least the persona he aspires to project]. you should see him in his slippahs [with a pair of discordant colorful socks] walking around [NYC's] union square's saturday farmer's market... [really it is NO sight to behold-- it's there in all his porky girth 
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for most americans and suburbans such as i, and for his sins, he is one [of a handful] who's been very visible in inspiring the romance of italy and it's respective regions' food/specialties, however fictive, ordinary, pedestrian those narratives may be-- ] and hordes flock his empire of gigs to partake in his conceits and contrivances - but the reason why i don't go to his restaurants anymore as he's now the chef celeb [i liked him when he had just one in the west village-- now he's like an overextended Puck.]
of course, that is why your site is so refreshing as we get to partake first hand [well, still vicariously] a 'native's' authentic, unalloyed, northern italian culinary experiences keep up the good work!
it just occurred to me that the canederli is like a matzoh sans red sauce. wondering if its origins is similar to Rome's fried artichoke, Carciofi alla Giudia?
mmm your images are very compelling and such romantic names for the delicacies - I especially like the big stinky cheese and all of those gorgeous saucy dishes looked wonderful too. I am so envious of the food served in the huts - looks like a really great spot to hang out...
Foodhoe - I figured that you'd like the stinky cheese. It was the lumache (loo-MAH-keh) though that made my hiking trip. I spotted that on the blackboard menu and practically ran up to be seated. No snail's pace for me!
Ciao Rowena! And I warned everyone not to come hungry! I can't even take my own advice! I am drooling.
Love carpaccio with salad. It looks the same as "carne salada". Is there a difference? And the "canederli" looks much like my mother's. She's German. Proof that there are no borders when it comes to delicious food. I loved how you threw in Eve, btw. 
Deliciously provocative post, Rowena! Buona giornata!
Food really is the best part, isn't it? You could call your Blog, "Eating your way through Italy." Mmmm...
You are living my dream.My husband calls me a picky eater and can't imagine that I ate my way through Europe and the Scandanavian countries and can actually pinpoint what food I ate where. oh boy!
'the other carla'
How do you do it? I always always always leave your site starving and homesick.
One quick question: the carne salade - it is sliced thicker than the carpaccio, not?
Have a super weekend.
Hey Rowena! Those bread dumplings are like the ones my grandma made during the depression! They look so good. Mine had a yellow tinge(egg yolks), but I'll take them anyway they serve them up. My son's grandpa came from an area close to the border and even have an Austrian sounding surname. This was a very cool post!
hugs!
Maryann xox
I, too, love hiking, as if it is an excuse to eat deliciously. But it certainly does stir the appetite, as if these photos weren't enough!
JustFoodNow - believe me, at times I even amaze myself at the stuff that I'm willing and able to eat! Nothing, but NOTHING else compares to italian food in ITALY. I don't care what the snobs say.
As for carne salada, it's sliced a bit thicker, like...oh...the thickness of 2 slices of carpaccio slapped together. Awesome stuff, both of them!
Maryann - if only your grandma could see the mom 'n' pop stores that advertise Canederli & Apple Strudel - 10 euros/kilo on little blackboard signs out on the street. The tourists love them, so you know that bread certainly never ever goes to waste in that part of Italy!
yummy..all of it looks so good. It's amazin how hungry you can get after a good long hike and everything seems to taste great.
As ususal, every thing looks so good. Wish I could get my hands on some of that cheese!
Hello from another Foodblog Featured Publisher. This post is very interesting -- all types of Italian food I have never heard of, like the creamed snails!
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