A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Parma, Italy by TravelPod blogger Travelingmom. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Parma Cooking School ” We’ve just returned from a great weekend with friends in Parma. The wife is one of the best cooks I know and I always consider our visits private Italian cooking school classes.Everyday meals are always look magazine cover-spread photo quality, with care taken to lay out each dish beautifully–even it is just sliced meats (Rob loves her Parma hams), Italian breads, a savory tart, a large chunk of Parmesan or perhaps a salad dish lined with blood oranges and assorted greens. When a crowd is expected, as we had Saturday night –our hosts expected sixteen friends over to hear a talk and to dine–the kitchen is cranked up, and every hour or two over a period of two days, a new dish was being created. I watched our hostess make up five or six different batches of dough, each slightly different be it for pizzas and foccacias, crusts, sweet pastries, or savory pies. Fillings included roasted leeks, dense mushrooms with Parmesan and egg, roasted artichokes , and pumpkin. A twisted bread dough ring included tomatoes, olives and fresh herbs. One of my favorite foccacias was with cooked escarole, olives, capers and anchovies. Unfortunately as I do not cook with salt (although I love savory things), everything is a bit too salty for me, and I downed bottled water non-stop. Dinner began with a lentil soup with a …

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