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    Home / Articles / KC's Blog

    Romanesco, Romesco & the Italian Channel

    Posted On Apr 28, 2010 · Updated On Apr 28, 2010

    Romanesco, Romesco & the Italian Channel
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    My grandpa is an Italian Farmer - like his father before him.  He is a major influence in my life, producing certain behaviors, including but limited to: an irrational fear of the number four, an unending quest to grow perfect tomatoes, the need to plant fruit trees every place I live, telling travel stories based on where & what I've eaten, and the idea that food can be studied & discovered.  Don't know who I'd be without him, don't care to find out.

    It so happens that my grandfather purchases his cable TV from a company that offers channels from other countries - 2 from Italy.  These channels were immediately purchased upon availability in our area, and Italian programming is now the basis (much to my gramma's chagrin) of all schedule planning in their household.  I probably like the variety/singing show best, where Italian pop stars from the last 40 years appear on twin stages, but that show does not, in grampa's mind, hold a candle to the TOURING AGRICULTURE show.

    His Italian is a bit broken, since he doesn't use it much (we all know the food & the swears, of course) so he has to pay close attention understand exactly what is going on.  I sat with him recently during a show while the hosts were walking through a winery - easy to understand, since I may not speak Italian but we all speak winery pretty well.  The next facility they visited was a farm of some kind, and it looked to me like they were growing Romanesco, which is a broccoli-cauliflower hybrid.  After much discussion about the possibility of it being a broccoli farm, and a conversation about whether Romesco was the right name for it rather than Romanecso (I will admit confusion in that moment) - the show visited a blood-orange farm, which we all again understood. And then we opened some wine.

    As I left their house, I mentally ran this recap:
    Romanesco: broccoli-cauliflower hybrid
    Romesco: a sauce, Spain's equivalent to pesto
    My Grampa: Simply the Greatest Guy on Earth

    Romanesce

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    1. Janice Preheim says

      May 07, 2010 at 3:40 am

      Love your site and enjoyed all the interesting info and great recipes but where can I find romanesco??????

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    2. Kim Loquaci says

      May 07, 2010 at 5:22 pm

      K.C.,
      I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through your website. Interesting and informative. Yours is the first Blog I've ever visited and replied to. The stories about your grandfather are great. Keep them coming. Best wishes, Kim

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    3. KC says

      May 17, 2010 at 8:50 pm

      Thanks so much to you both! The best place to find Romanesco is at Supermarket that specialize in natural products, like Whole Foods, or at Farmer's Markets

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    4. Simon Lepore at Quick Weight Loss says

      May 27, 2010 at 11:33 am

      Excellent piece as always. Did you know Bing was featuring your blog on it's Blog Watch? Bet you've got a few webmasters going a bit jealous with envy right now 😉

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    5. KC says

      May 27, 2010 at 9:21 pm

      Thanks for letting us know Simon!

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