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13
Jul
Nothing As Good Italian Cuisine, Including Italian Coffee

Cooking like my Italian Grandma!

I remember growing up in an Italian household and the wonderful Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs and Braciole my grandmother used to make. I remember always being transfixed with the cooking and all the time my grandmother spent in the kitchen. It seemed to me that she cooked ALL the time. Actually ALL of my memories of my Italian grandmother are of her in the kitchen cooking. When I was a kit I remember just enjoying the good Italian food and all the time we spent at the kitchen table. I remember some dinner being like 5 hours long plus. Plate after plate… Several course meals, sharing laughter and love and good times. I grew up thinking this kind of life-style was normal  When I was a teenager we kept having big Italian meals like this but then there was a lot of wine involved and I think the meals got even longer! I would have friends over to share a Sunday meal with us and they were just amazed at all the food … They would eat and drink too much and next feel like a mac truck hit them and did not know how we had meals like that and survived.! Ha! I guess it takes training ;-)

Well, I am now 46 years old and can proudly say that I can cook like my grandmother did. It took years of practice and lots of phone calls with my mother and uncles slowly extracting all the Italian family cooking secrets. It takes a lot of effort, patience and perseverance to learn how to cook like grandma did!  …

So I know have all the details of how to cook the Italian Recipes my grandmother used to make and I could not be happier. There are still many more recipes of hers to nail down and I will do my best to get them all figured out. I’m an a quest to achieve this! Very happy with the recipes I can already make but have many more to go!

I have many of her recipes on their all spelled out and a “My Italian Grandmother” page that is dedicated to my Italian grandmother . She would be very pleased to see that here recipes and family traditions are living on. If she were alive today, I would just love to cook a huge pot of Spaghetti sauce for her with all the meats and see how she liked it. I think she would be quite pleased! 

Happy cooking, Happy Times and Share the LOVE!

  Ciao,  Anthony

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22
May
Coffee Reverses Physiologic Effects On Alzheimer’s

Coffee is an essential start of the day for many of us. Research has proven that coffee is not all that bad for you. Coffee has proven to help maintain a good immune system, protect the liver against cancer, and one of the most interesting about coffee is that it helps maintain the memory.

A couple of cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests.

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US neuroscience Gary Arendash said: “The new findings provide evidence that caffeine could be a viable ‘treatment’ for established Alzheimer’s disease, and not simply a protective strategy. That’s important because caffeine is a safe drug for most people. It easily enters the brain, and it appears to directly affect the disease process.” As the leading researcher, he plans to follow up the initial results from animal experiments with human patient trials.

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A key aspect of Alzheimer’s is sticky clumps of abnormal protein in the brain called beta amyloid plaques. Mice with a rodent equivalent of the disease showed a 50 per cent reduction in levels of amyloid protein in their brains after scientists spiked their drinking water with caffeine. The change was reflected in their behaviour as the mice developed better memories and quicker thinking.

Dr Arendash’s team, from the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre in Tampa, studied 55 mice, genetically engineered to develop dementia symptoms identical to those of Alzheimer’s. At the age of 18 to 19 months, about 70 in human years, the mice were showing signs of memory impairment. The researchers then gave half the mice water containing caffeine while the other half continued to drink ordinary water.

Humans receiving an equivalent dose for their body weight would be consuming two cups of strong “coffee shop” coffee a day.

At the end of the two-month study, the caffeine-drinking mice performed far better on tests of memory and thinking than mice given “straight” water. Their memories were as sharp as those of healthy older mice without dementia. Almost half the abnormal protein previously seen when the brains of Alzheimer’s mice were examined had vanished after two months. The study was published online in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

However, the scientists found no evidence that caffeine boosted the mental performance of healthy young brains. Normal mice given caffeinated drinking water throughout their lives had memories no better than those raised on regular water when they reached old age.

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