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Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board

The Macroterranean Way

Season 3 Episode 301

Chef Christina Pirello has spent her career straddling worlds: Mediterranean eating and macrobiotics with a bit of Chinese Medicine. Both focus on great food and wellness and the marriage of the two is a delicious and unique way to nourish ourselves. Recipes include crostini with black kale & agrodolce shallots, orecchiette with cauliflower, pine nuts & raisins, and fregola salad with zucchini.

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Embrace, celebrate and give all the love you have with good food.
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Cooking with brothers is a rite of passage; Christina cooks with an Italian brother in Pompeii.
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