Pasta all'Ortolana Pasta all'Ortolana Pasta all'Ortolana is an Italian dish made by cooking various different vegetables before mixing them together with pasta ( translates "Greengrocer"). The recipe does not state a specific type of pasta, so it can be made with Fusilli, Fettuccine, Penne, Rigatoni, Farfalle or any other type of short Pasta. The vegetables used in the process are generally carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, zucchini, celery, yellow and red capsicum, cherry tomatoes and eggplants. Vegetables have to be washed and cleaned before slicing them in small strips (apart from the celery that needs to be chopped in even smaller pieces). The
Food writing Food writer Michael Pollan holds the Knight Professorship of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and since 2013 has directed the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship Program. In 2013, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg began a graduate certificate program in Food Writing and Photography, created by longtime "Tampa Bay Times" food and travel editor Janet K. Keeler. This is a list of some prominent writers on food, cooking, dining, and cultural history related to food. Food writing Food writing is a type of writing that focuses on food and includes works by