Sep 25, 2020 | Bello Menu Spotlight, Business Metaphors, Italian Food, Pasta
One of the best dishes my mom made when I was a kid was Minestra. Minestra is a soup that uses the vegetables of the season. So there’s not really one recipe because it changes all the time. Unfortunately, I was making a popup of 7 courses of pasta at the restaurant...
Sep 18, 2020 | Bello Menu Spotlight, Business Metaphors, Italian Ingredients
When I started Bello I was determined to serve food that people here had never had before. Heck, a lot of the things I serve, most people in Italy have never had before. The problem (as I have discussed in previous posts) is that when you get too far out ahead of...
Sep 15, 2020 | Business Metaphors, Italian Food
Sometimes when you are conceptualizing a product, the smallest quantity is the most luxurious. When I was thinking about our 10 Courses of Crudo popup, I wanted to use oysters and I wanted to blow people away. So, of course, I bought Kusshi oysters. These are likely...
Sep 14, 2020 | Bello Menu Spotlight, Italian Food, Italian Ingredients
We are at the end of heirloom tomato season. One of the things that we like to do in Italy is to eat as much of a seasonal ingredient as possible while it is in season. But we don’t just eat it in its natural state. Of course, I eat lots of sliced tomatoes but I...
Sep 8, 2020 | Italian Food, Italian Ingredients
Foraging has been a big deal in cuisine for the past few years. I would do it myself but being from Italy I don’t know the local area that well and I might get eaten by a coyote if I wandered out looking for ingredients. Fortunately, one of my friends is one of the...
