Food Fiascos

Amatriciana in the Blender

10 Comments / Food Fiascos / Trisha Thomas

One of the most popular Italian pasta dishes is Bucatini all’Amatriciana. Bucatini is a sort of fat spaghetti and the Amatriciana sauce is made with tomatoes, pieces of guanciale (a type of bacon) and onion. I learned how to make this sauce but then I decided that I didn’t like chunks of tomatoes, bacon and […]

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How I Ended Up in Italy

25 Comments / Food Fiascos / Trisha Thomas

When I was 20, I was convinced I would become a well-known television correspondent in Asia. I started out well, spending a year covering political upheavals in the Philippines, and then I won a scholarship to get a Masters Degree in South East Asian Studies at Columbia University in New York. The first day, the

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