Listen for the sizzles
The start of a fresh, wonderful lunch outside under the grapevines / Sv. Vid, Croatia / May 2005
“When I don't eat very well, I feel sad,” she says. “If you don't eat right you get sick — you can see that all around. Why is it that people don't care?”
~ Luciana Spurio, chef at Le Virtu who comes from the Abruzzi region of Italy, in a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Luciana advises us to turn off the exhaust fan in the kitchen and listen for the right sizzles: “The eyes, the ears, the nose, these are what you're cooking with and you put yourself in the recipe.”