http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Anna+Maria+Volpi Food and Drinks Anna Maria Volpi Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=42467&ca=Food+and+Drinks Pizza, the way we know it today, is a derivation from focaccia (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread that has been prepared since antiquity in different forms and garnished with herbs, olives, fat, raisin, honey, and nuts. The word pizza in Italian identifies any type of flat bread or pie—fried... Food and Drinks Anna Maria Volpi Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=42466&ca=Food+and+Drinks Open an old Italian cookbook, browse through the index and… surprise! No Tiramisu’ cake recipe. My first encounter with Tiramisu’ was in 1985. I was in Italy at that time: A friend of mine told me about this new cake recipe she got. She was so enthusiastic about it that I felt compelled to try it im... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Anna Maria Volpi Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=40723&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet The first step to loose weight and be healthy is to control your eating habits. Loosing weight starts with eating moderately. Did you know that your new automobile is likely to have a larger cup-holder than your older model? That restaurants use larger plates, bakers are selling larger muffins, pizz... Food and Drinks Anna Maria Volpi Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4531&ca=Food+and+Drinks Why, unfortunately, just washing vegetables is not enough to ensure produce clean enough for consumption We all ingest lots of chemicals, one way or another. We breathe them, we drink them, and we eat them. The most troublesome are pesticides in produce. It makes me uncomfortable to think that while...