{"id":4035,"date":"2023-05-04T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:37:05","slug":"food-club-may-2-7-2023-spaghetti-westerns-and-tuscan-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"Food Club: May 2-7, 2023 \u201cSpaghetti Westerns and Tuscan Cowboys\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0215-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The original cowboys were Italian!&nbsp; Oh yes they were! The&nbsp;<em>Butteri<\/em>&nbsp;of southern Tuscany have been an intrinsic part of the Maremma area for centuries, riding and roping long-horned cattle on horseback.&nbsp; Maybe that explains, in part, why Italians have always been intrigued with the American West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<\/strong><\/em>, recognized as one of the top ten films of all time, was an Italian-made Western, emblematic of the widely popular genre of movies directed by Italian, Sergio Leone, in the 1960s and 70s that were ultimately dubbed &#8220;Spaghetti Westerns.&#8221;&nbsp; They were a stark depiction of the Old West, featuring characters who possessed both heroic and villainous traits, the most prominent being &#8220;The Man with No Name&#8221; portrayed by Clint Eastwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week&#8217;s menu is inspired by simple, straight-forward foods that could have been eaten in the marshes of Maremma or on the Plains of the American West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iricchifoodclub.com\/blogs\/news\/week-163-menu-may-2-7-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE MENU<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original cowboys were Italian!&nbsp; Oh yes they were! The&nbsp;Butteri&nbsp;of southern Tuscany have been an intrinsic part of the Maremma area for centuries, riding and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specials","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}