Welcome to Reveries and Recipes. It covers food – the RECIPES, some other things – the REVERIES and I suppose there’ll  be some rants too. I came to cooking late in life.  I was brought up as an Italian-American prince and never saw the inside of a kitchen. But I loved good food and had the need to learn to cook. My grandmother, Nicolina came to America from Salerno in southern Italy at the beginning of the 20^th century and brought a great food tradition with her – la cucina povera, the cooking of the poor.