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I love this post to understand better how mozzarella is made but I will never attempt to make it home, at least until I live in Italy. :)

If it's genetic how can my husband love it and my father-in-law hate it?

I've lived in China for work for a few month and I got addicted to sticky rice, so I normally cook chinese style white rice (without salt or anything else, only sprinkled sesame seed when serving it). I've found an italian grown rice which suits perfectly to this kind of cooking method so I don't need to buy more expensive imported rice from abroad. And I bought a very simple, basic and cheap rice cooker which does the job wonderfully.

Totally log.
Feather only on airplanes.
In normal conditions I can sleep everywhere, even if the bed is a mess, in daylight, on boats...I just need some light I hate when there's total darkness.

I couldn't imagine this topic to be so full of informations!!! As I said in the beginning I'm european and eat euro style but, inside this method, there are lots of variations, tins up and down, how you hold your knife, depending on the situation (at least for me, I don't want to eat too formally when I'm home).
But I have a question: if you eat american style you still put the fork on the left and the knife on the right? This is quite nonsense.

Hi! I was born and raised in the parmigiano reggiano area and it's common to add parmigiano crusts to stocks for added flavour. It's also very tatsy to eat the half melted cheese hot out of the stock!!! I don't think you can use other cheeses because parmigiano has a very peculiar texture.
Love!
Valeria

definitely with ricer

Cleaning a moka: you can cool it down with water in order to open it and wash it. Never wash the inside with soap and never wash the Bialetti in the washing mashing or it gets grey and can get the soap taste (aluminium is porous and retains smells).
It's better to dry it before reassembling and to leave the 3 pieces separate if you're out for many days because even a small humidity creates stains inside.
I'm italian and I live in China and the first thing I packed was a moka with coffee!
Valeria

I live in China where food is normally quite cheap but for some reasons avocados are not, they are imported only for expats and sold at very high price. One avocado 90 RMB at local grocery, which is around 15 dollars?!?! I'll wait to be back in Europe....

Why not a wooden laminated floor (easy to install and to clean and cheap)? Colors for kitchen can be from neutral classic (white, cream, gray, lavender) or strong bold colors. With the black top I'd choose a neutral tone if you don't plan to change it. If you do, I'd choose lavender or olive green and cream-light gray-white top.
(from an interior designer actually living in China!)