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Useful Household Vocabulary Posted by on Nov 26, 2014

Last week, in response to our post Helpful Labels – The Kitchen a reader asked me: “how would you express that you are cleaning/tidying up? I believe that in Italian, it is expressed as putting things in order, or in their place? Also, what is the difference in saying that you are baking cookies vs…

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In Cucina Posted by on Mar 26, 2012

In Italian we have two verbs that both mean ‘to cook’, cucinare and cuocere. Cucinare refers to the work done by il cuoco/la cuoca (the cook), i.e. the process of cooking/making food, e.g oggi cucino le lasagne (today I’m cooking/making lasagne), Maria sa cucinare tutti i piatti tradizionali della zona (Maria knows how to cook/make…

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