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giovanni tiso

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:23:54 +1300

Sorry to have strayed of topic, but the roadside olive trees that the Wellington city council planted during the eighties, are probably off limits to the public now. They won a prestigious award. As a result, I guess I'd get growled if I tried picking them.

When we lived in…

Stephen Judd

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:46:59 +1300

I've seen people gathering olives from street trees in Jerusalem.

I wondered about doing it here, but the thought of pollution from car exhaust puts me off.

Islander

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:35:18 +1300

My Grandmother Range is as interesting as pretty well everyones'-

Nanna was born in Waianakarua, was schooled (up until Standard 6) in Totara ( both south of Oamaru) and travelled north as far as Christchurch and the odd tiki-tour into North Canterbury including Hanmer Springs; and south as far as…

Russell Brown

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:34:11 +1300

I'll talk to Russell, but I'm determined to at least post that recipe

Write what you want, when you want. Send it in.

giovanni tiso

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:26:41 +1300

I am very interested in hearing about baking the bread and the recipe will there be a follow-up post?

I'll talk to Russell, but I'm determined to at least post that recipe, yes, if that plan comes to fruition. I'm travelling to the source next Tuesday, and my cousins there…

giovanni tiso

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:19:15 +1300

you know, the more i hear about this giovanni tiso guy? the more i like it.

I also hear he's very, very handsome.

I'v got a drawing and some writing rendered by his dad, my great great grand dad. That information's planted a memory of an imagined person. I imagined…

Che Tibby

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:07:00 +1300

DUDE YOU WRITE RESEARCH ON SCI-FI!!!

you know, the more i hear about this giovanni tiso guy? the more i like it.

Max Call

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:17:26 +1300

I am very interested in hearing about baking the bread and the recipe
will there be a follow-up post?

Grandmother range –
my maternal grandmother moved to Hawkes Bay when she was 3 (just in time for the big shake of '31 of which she remembers a lot of) from…

Kyle Matthews

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:08:46 +1300

Picture, pictures, lessee...

Ah OK, that is what I pictured, but it didn't match my assumed shape of dumplings (er round?) so I was confused. Interesting.

giovanni tiso

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:54:27 +1300

Thank you Russell for the hospitaly, this is quite exciting for me I must say. Although I was doing the classy thing and not plugging the blog... that was all him, I swear!

The instructions lost me about 1/2 way through, somewhere around the masher.

Picture, pictures, lessee... [[http://www.ilpostodellefate.com/images/passatelli1.jpg|These are…

Kimberley Verburg

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:21:42 +1300

Another Dutch Kiwi here (hi Kirsten *g*), but living in the more prosaic city of London. I used to be a "food is fuel" kind of person but two years in Paris cured me and I'm now suitably horrified at what the English think is acceptable to feed children for…

Danielle

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:13:45 +1300

I love the idea of the Grandmother Range. My grandmother stayed in a tiny rural parish of Louisiana all her life (apart from one amazing visit to us in NZ when I was six – I still can't believe that happened). With a few exceptions, Cajuns never go *anywhere* -…

Kirsten Brethouwer

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:45:52 +1300

thank you for that Giovanni, I'm a dutch kiwi that has accidentally ended up in Rome (by accidentally I mean I had no particular plan or dream to live in Italy previously) but since being here I understand that the Italian relationship with food is quite something. First I was…

Paul Williams

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:13:52 +1300

Indeed a wondeful story Giovanni, perhaps RB will let you do another guest piece on your return or at least when you next have a great recipe to share.

range

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:44:11 +1300

That sounds like a great trip. I'm hoping to do the same with my son, Keanu, (15) soon. His mother is Italian – a Carneavle from Naples (her family moved her when she was about 5). I love hanging out with her family, and there is always an abundance of…

Kyle Matthews

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:10:10 +1300

OK, I need to see a photo of that meal completed. The instructions lost me about 1/2 way through, somewhere around the masher.

Che Tibby

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:01:39 +1300

god, red lambrusco... i remember drinking litres of it at the original la porchetta in carlton, melbourne. it was like $4 a bottle, and therefore, a must.

you can buy it from the med warehouse here in wellington at a pretty reasonable price. fantastic chilled and served with summer salads

Carol Stewart

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:42:53 +1300

What a lovely story, Giovanni.
My grandmother's home range was similar to your Nonna – she didn't own a car and walked everywhere – although in later years she did travel out to New Zealand to see us and was also fond of Norway.
However, I'm not sure I want…

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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:42:53 +1300

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