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"Big Little Lies": what do the Monterey Five eat? – Italian Cuisine

Among secrets, lies, double lives and gastronomic tics. Let's discover the delusions at the table of our beloved Monterey Five, now in the second season of "Big Little Lies"

TO Monterey, a town of 30 thousand inhabitants in the heart of the California, time drags on slowly until dusk, when the supermamme of the community, those who struggle every day not to appear less than the others, can pass cleansing milk on their faces and put aside the mask of perfection they wear continuously: since they accompany their children to school and when they strive to prepare muffins for very refined brunches. There are five of them, each with their own personality and obsessions: Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), who carries with her the reputation of the arrogant with a strong personality; Celeste (Nicole Kidman), diaphanous and correct with everyone; Jane (Shailene Woodley), the only one to raise a child alone; Bonnie (Zoe Kravitz), who tries to carry on a healthy regime to live better with nature; and Renata (Laura Dern), the richest, the only one to feel judged for being a career woman. They are the protagonists of Big Little Lies (Little Big Lies), the HBO series based on the eponymous novel by Liane Moriarty, now in its second season which has just begun on Sky Atlantic. The spearhead of this new cycle of episodes is the stainless Meryl Streep, at her first participation in a TV series and already sure to take home the best actress nominations for Emmys and Golden Globes.

Big Little Lies 2 (Little Big Lies); from Facebook.

Yet, despite his arrival, the Monterey Five, which guard the secret of the murder of Perry, Celeste's husband, continue their lives as if nothing had happened, caring, above all, to provide for the family's food needs. When they meet, they order a coffee with a view of the bay, relax with a glass of red wine and devote themselves to tasty chats, which make time go by faster. In the intimacy of the home, on the other hand, I am careful that everything goes right. If Bonnie carries on an absolutely green idea, based on vegetable flans and centrifuges, low-fat yogurt and herbal teas with herbs, Madeline yields to sins of gluttony without feeling too guilty. Among pancakes, chocolate cookies, brownies and pretzels, it seems to support that theorem of Monica Vitti who says that life is too short to give up the pleasures of the table. Celeste, on the other hand, is decidedly more balanced, oppressed by the idea of always satisfying someone else, whether it's her late husband Perry or her mother-in-law Mary Louise. Prepare muesli, ginger bread and pay attention to the energies of its twins, who try to refresh it in the morning with eggs and toasted bacon. Jane is more botched, then, with the little Ziggy, she gets by as good as she can. They often order pizza, they rarely give steamed eggs and, for special occasions, opt for a tasty lemon pancake. Lastly, those who almost never have time to cook in the kitchen are Renata, who tries to keep up with her Annabella by developing a refined diet that is often taken away, such as sushi and stuffed quiches, cheese crackers and spaghetti bolognese.

In short, five different ways of being women, but with a single matrix in common: doing your best so that the gears do not jam and everything runs smoothly. At least until dusk, when the cleansing milk that sweeps away the mask …

Meryl Streep makes 70! What does the most requested diva of cinema eat? – Italian Cuisine

The woman, the actress, the cook. On June 22nd Meryl Streep turns 70. But its particular beauty and the irresistible charm that characterizes it win over time

Meryl Streep she is a perfectionist, an acrobat between talent and awards on the shelf. In her career, one of the most prolific and acclaimed in the world, she has devised a myriad of roles, hundreds of emotional states, always with critics applauding her and the directors competing to work with her. Yet for Mary Louise Streep, born seventy years ago at Summit, a small town in New Jersey, the things that really matter are others: love, sex and, of course, food.

The diva at the stove

She is the one who revealed it in an interview a few years ago on "The Talks", where she confessed for the first time a certain clumsiness in the kitchen. «Sometimes I started preparing dishes only to say: Oh god! And then throw them in the sink . When her children were young, there was someone who cooked for her: luxury to which she had to give up and which led her to prove herself once more: "When my children were young it was difficult to pay attention to the tasks at the end of the day and even prepare dinner ".
Lately, however, the pleasure of cooking has also infected her: she admits to preparing a lot of pasta, "because it's easy". «I cook because my children love certain types of things and then they want more and more of them. My daughter is now fixated with pasta with cauliflower, fresh parsley, tarragon and salted ricotta . The dishes are certainly not very simple for the actress who won three Oscars, which is in great demand from all over the world and on the most prestigious sets there are.

Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in "Bridges of Madison County", 1975 (photo by Warner Brothers / Getty Images).

The woman and the actress

However, it is not easy to deal with the woman and the professional. If she can manage everything, it is above all thanks to her husband Don Gummer ("I was lucky to have found it") and to a certain organizational ability that allows her to plan everything well in advance, careful that nothing goes wrong. Acting, after all, is his lifeblood and if he were deprived of it he would die. "It is a glorious profession and I am so grateful for all that it has allowed me to express", Meryl confesses again, which does not hide the fragility of any woman. From a pinch of healthy envy for Jessica Lange when she got the part in Sweet Dreams in the long embrace with Sophia Loren after the unfounded voice that said that the Italian diva had it for her to have blown her starring role in The Madison County bridges. At work, however, there can be no fear. "You can be afraid in a press conference, be nervous or sweaty, but you can't have it while you do this job because that's how it works." And we love it for that too.

Maritozzi in Milan: where to eat them – Italian Cuisine

The Roman hubby is the sweet of the moment, in Milan and thanks to the new Gelsomina pastry. The merit, of the influencers, of Instagram and of an entrepreneur. And the rest of the patisseries follows. Here is where to find, among classic versions, the creative ones by Iginio Massari or the savory ones for brunch

The maritozzo has become trendy. But we are not in Rome. We are in the Milan of fashion, design, phobia for carbohydrates and influencers. And it was they alone who decreed that we now like marriages – strictly with cream. A large, soft, sweet sandwich, rich in butter, honey and eggs, filled with whipped cream. A classic that does not even mean "back in fashion", because nobody had ever done it in Milan.

The credit goes to a girl, Ilaria Puddu, which however is not a pastry chef, but an entrepreneur. Partner of Stefano Saturnino, in seven years together they opened 35 premises and 7 brands, starting from Panini Durini to reach the various Marghe, Pizzium etc. It's them too Gelsomina, the Milanese confectionery that turned out to be a real media event in a few months. It opened in autumn 2018 and thanks to an intelligent social strategy is the place to be of the Milanese weekend.
Everything is perfect: grandmother's cups, peeling walls without plaster, some plants, a social table, garden furniture, the light that enters through the windows, coffee and homemade Sicilian-inspired pastries. Brioche, cupcakes, cannolo and husband: he has become the most photographed and shared dessert of the moment.

A few steps away from Pavè, Gelsomina cannot boast the captivating story of a youthful enterprise, of tears, blood and mess-tin, of a life change thanks to the conversion to the pastry shop, of the laboratory at sight. They don't even stress you on the superfine quality of the ingredients and the name of the pastry chef (Marco Spera, he worked at La Mantia but few know it) is neither communicated nor idolized. It is a place born from the intuition of two young entrepreneurs who know how the "all-day bakeries" will be a new trend together with bread. The idea of husband is instead only by Ilaria. She wondered why no one did it in Milan, and here's the answer. He just had to start the right one.

The customers like and even like the husband Iginio Massari, who proposes it in his pastry shop in Piazza Diaz in the city center. For him, the world champion of pastry, the perfect husband has a paste neither rubbery nor too hard, with a surface polished by egg and liquid cream. He had talked to Meet Massari 2018, a tour of Italy through his confectionery traditions that in Rome had devoted ample space to the typical dessert of the capital. Its variant has cream and even whipped cream, and serves it with cutlery.

If Massari's husband hasn't arrived in the influencer feeds yet, he also serves it Filippo La Mantia that in his Sicilian pastry making an exception to the rule against cassate and arancini.

We try to break through on social media "The American who loved brioche"Local in the Isola area (new opening from February 2019) where you can find them classic or savory and stuffed with scrambled eggs and bacon, for breakfast all day long, or Maritozz-hot with sausages and ketchup.

The husbands of An American who loved brioche.

The site Scatti di Gusto has done a research, and found three more at the Pasticceria San Gregorio, Marlà and the Pasticceria Eoliana and they also serve it from Abbottega, a place of Roman inspiration.

To date we have mapped these, but without a doubt they are only the first.

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