“Porn? I’m not doing porn! What the hell are people talking about? The way we shot close-ups, I just wanted the food to look beautiful. I thought that’s what Americans loved about Italy — that it’s so sensual and romantic. [It’s not] PBS-style cooking. Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but [she’s] kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death…but he’s not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.”

– Giada De Laurentiis, TV chef

Buenos Aires – I just posted up a set of photos from the first session of Color Palate of Italy class over on my Flickr page. To those who sent me snippy little e-mails with questions like “Are we going to learn to make anything worth eating?”… well, just sayin’…

In the meantime, here in today’s post, the new(ish) burger with the works at Amaranta…