Cooking through the Collection Podcast

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Cooking through the Collection Podcast

Welcome to the Cooking through the Collection Podcast. Melissa is a librarian who loves to cook.

19/05/2026

Here is a photo from the recipe test of The Food and Cooking of Milan and Bologna Valentina Harris. Braised Beef in Barolo and Milanese risotto. Listen to the podcast episode now wherever you listen to podcasts!

12/05/2026

Cooking through the Collection podcast is back! If you’ve been following my adventures through northern Italy here, then you probably know what’s happening…new episode out now where you find podcasts!

02/05/2026

I attended a library conference in Minneapolis, and had to take the time to go to and recognize its significance in our culinary history.

This was one of the best meals of my life, and I ate it solo while watching the Mississippi River flow.

The simplicity and perfection of ingredients was truly moving.

My meal was:

Ancho-brined duck with a blackberry sumac sauce, and duck puposa
Maple beans with candied walnuts (I ordered tepary beans to try to recreate this)
A duck-egg custard with sumac-sprinkled sweet potato chips
A zero-proof cocktail “Okaadaakaaboo” (Carrot Juice) with carrot, sarsaparilla, Mexican vanilla bean, ginger, and maple

Foods that are native and grown on our land are harder to find. I am blessed to live in the Garden State, but it’s hard to have the temptations of “available year round” and food shipped thousands of miles to get here.

25/04/2026

Our last dinner in Milan was at . Braises beef cheek on saffron risotto, grilled squid, and a beef tenderloin smothered in a green peppercorn sauce. This felt like a neighborhood family restaurant, and a perfect final meal for this amazing vacation.

19/04/2026

We went on a bus tour that sent to Lugano, Switzerland and of course had to get some chocolate. I had the best hot chocolate of my life (at Vittorio Vanini). My husband had that same hot chocolate with a shot of espresso, and we sat and enjoyed the view after the tour of Lake Como.

17/04/2026

My husband swears that his gelato at IS the best frozen dessert he’s ever had, with amarena (cherries) in the bottom of the perfectly crisp cone and then more cherries in the gelato. Adding dark chocolate on top? Pure decadence.

12/04/2026

I had the best gelato (and possibly frozen creamy dessert!) of my life in Bologna.

The traditional crema is something I will never forget.

08/04/2026

Of course we had to try the tortellini and pasta with ragu in Bologna. It puts whatever pasta of these genres I had to shake. Our guide is so proud of her food and traditions in Bologna, and it shines in every bite I ate that day. Just walking through the streets made me drool…

31/03/2026

We went on a food tour in a day trip to Bologna. It was one of the best days of food in my life.

We tried every cured meat, Parmigiano Reggiano, and sparkling wines in a small corner of one of the last true osterias.

29/03/2026

We went to dinner with one of our cousins and had an incredible dinner featuring seafood at .milano. Lobster pasta, pumpkin stuffed pasta with langostines, (a perfectly cooked seam break not pictured), and a mandarin orange sorbet were part of a top notch service evening.

30/10/2025

is worth the wait! We have been for brunch twice in beautiful weekends. Their donuts with seasonal jam (this time apricot) is indulgent, and I used the extra jam on my sourdough toast. And their had brown? The best I’ve ever had—perfectly crispy on the outside, and fluffy on the inside. Definitely a must-go when in the area.

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