{"id":672553,"date":"2010-02-20T02:04:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T07:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2010-02-20T02:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T07:04:24","slug":"italian-tv-chef-recommends-%e2%80%98cat-stew%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672553","title":{"rendered":"Italian TV Chef Recommends \u2018Cat Stew\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hooper writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/feb\/16\/tv-chef-cat-stew-italy\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among other things, Giuseppe &#8220;Beppe&#8221; Bigazzi is known for his prize-winning cookbook La cucina semplice dei sapori d&#8217;Italia (&#8220;The simple cuisine of the flavours of Italy&#8221;). But as of this week, the flavour with which the TV gastronome is likely to be most closely associated is that of stewed cat.<\/p>\n<p>Bigazzi is familiar to millions of viewers of the publicly-owned RAI network as the white-haired co-presenter of a popular pre-lunchtime programme, La prova del cuoco (&#8220;The proof of the cook&#8221;). But today he was experiencing his first day without television commitments in 10 years after being axed for expressing his enthusiasm for the flesh of felines.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after mentioning how, in the desperate conditions of post-war Italy, some people had taken to boiling stray mogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hooper writes in the Guardian: Among other things, Giuseppe &#8220;Beppe&#8221; Bigazzi is known for his prize-winning cookbook La cucina semplice dei sapori d&#8217;Italia (&#8220;The simple cuisine of the flavours of Italy&#8221;). But as of this week, the flavour with which the TV gastronome is likely to be most closely associated is that of stewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OXD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}