Cauliflower/Brussels Sprout Pizza

Cauliflower and Brussels Sprout pizza on 9 grain dough with red pepper garnish.

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NUTELLA TASTING JOB IN ALBA, ITALY

Lovers of Nutella would love nothing more than to eat it all day, every day. Now, fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread have the chance to do just that ... and get paid for it!

The Ferrero Company, which makes Nutella, Ferrero Rocher chocolates and other sweet treats, just posted a dream job for any true chocolate lover.

The famed Italian chocolatier is currently seeking 60 new "sensory judges” — a fancy term for taste tester — that might just have you jetting off to Italy for endless amounts of cocoa-infused treats.

Although the job post didn't specify an age range for applicants, your Nutella-loving preschooler should probably stay in school.Alamy Stock Photo

Soremartec Italia, Ferrero's research and development branch located in Alba, Italy, continuously “creates and tests new products” through “sensory evaluation,” according to the company’s mission statement. Now, they just need a little more help getting the job done from non-professionals.

According to the job listing, the position involves tasting ingredients, including various types of cocoa and hazelnuts, mixed in the mouthwatering nut butter.

Ferrero seeks an "average consumer-type" — including individuals open to learning more about the nutty world of chocolate spreads — and applicants need no prior experience in the culinary industry.

Of course, there are a couple caveats. The ideal applicant should be able to communicate well in Italian ... and apply in the language, too. Also, the chocolatier only wants applicants that have no known food allergies (which affect millions of Americans), be comfortable using a computer and be ready, willing and able to relocate to Italy.

The “sensory judges” will work at the company’s headquarters in Alba, which is located in Italy’s northwest Piedmont region and is perhaps best known for its white truffles (the savory kind found by specially trained pigs), fine wines, cheeses and Roman art.

Plenty of people are already freaking out about the potential opportunity.

According to Italian news agency The Local, this job posting represents Ferrero’s first ever position for "non-professional” taste testers. The role of “sensory judge” was formerly entrusted to experienced, internal employees only.

Those 60 selected applicants will join the taste-test force for a paid training course scheduled to start in September. The training, which will last three months, is designed to sharpen each recruits' sense of taste and smell, and will educate them on the appropriate vocabulary to express each distinctly flavorful experience.

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At the end of the course, candidates deemed suitable for extended work will receive a long-term contract with a part-time commitment of two days a week for two hours. Approximately 40 truly tortured testers will then join two separate tasting panels.

This job certainly gives new meaning to the saying "go with your gut." All interested parties should send a resume and cover letter to alba@openjob.it, specifying “ALB01” in the subject line.

NUTELLA TASTING JOB POSTING IN ALBA ITALY

RICERCHIAMO 60 GIUDICI SENSORIALI
per attività di degustazione di prodotti dolciari
Ricerchiamo per Soremartec Italia Srl persone a cui piacerebbe imparare a gustare cacao, granella di nocciole e altri prodotti semilavorati dolci.
Un corso di formazione retribuito (con inizio a settembre e della durata di 3 mesi) avrà l’obiettivo di educare il senso dell’olfatto e del gusto emigliorare la capacità di esprimere a parole ciò che si percepirà con gli assaggi dei prodotti semilavorati.
Al termine del corso, i candidati ritenuti idonei saranno assunti con un contratto in somministrazione duraturo nel tempo con un impegno part time di due giorni alla settimana di 2 ore.
Sede di lavoro: Alba.
Le persone interessate possono inviare il curriculum a alba@openjob.it, specificando nell’oggetto RIF. ALB01.
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YUMLICIOUS HAM HOCKS AND PEA SOUP

YUMLICIOUS EASY PEA SOUP WITH HAM HOCKS OR HAM BONE
INGREDIENTS:

2 HAM HOCKS OR HAM BONE
16 OZ PKG OF SPLIT PEAS
2 CUPS CHOPPED CARROTS
2 CUPS CHOPPED CELERY
2 MED ONIONS CHOPPED
1 TSP SALT AND 1/4 PEPPER TO TASTE
CUT UP PIECES OF HAM FROM BONE OR BAKED HAM

PUT GREEN SPLIT PEAS IN DUTCH OVEN AND COVER WITH 2' OF WATER. BRING TO A BOIL, LOWER HEAT AND SIMMER FOR 5 MINUTES. REMOVE FROM HEAT AND STRAIN TO REMOVE WATER.

FILL DUTCH OVEN WITH 2 1/2 OR 3 QUARTS OF WATER. ADD PEAS, HAM HOCKS, CELERY, ONION, CARROTS, SALT AND PEPPER. BRING TO BOIL, LOWER AND SIMMER FOR 1-1/2 TO 2 HOURS. 

A DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS MEAL FOR A COLD BLIZZARD  DAY AS WE ARE HAVING HERE IN New England. THREE NOR'EASTERS IN 2 WEEKS. 

JUST ONE OF "MY YUMLICIOUS RECIPIES"

ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND LENTIL CHILI

INGREDIENTS:

1 16 OZ PACKAGE OF LENTILS, 2 CUPS CHOPPED CARROTS, 2 CUPS CHOPPED CELERY, 2 MEDIUM ONIONS CHOPPED, 2 CHICKEN BREASTS.

1 LB OF ITALIAN SAUSAGE, 1 LARGE ONIONS CHOPPED, 3 CLOVES OF GARLIC CHOPPED, AND 1-28 OZ CAN OF PETITE DICED TOMATOES,  AND CHOPPED HAM FROM PORK SHOULDER IF DESIRED OR HAM HOCKS.

Rinse and drain lentils. Chop 2 cups carrots, 2 large onions, 2 cups celery, and have available 2 small chicken breasts. Fill Dutch oven with 2 1/2 quarts of water , then add lentils, carrots, onions, celery, and chicken breasts, and 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, bring to a boil and lower to simmer for 1 hour.

While the above is simmering, in a large fry pan, brown the sausage, move to sides of pan,  and add 1 large cubed onion, 3 cloves of chopped garlic, with a little EVOO and a pinch of red pepper flakes and saute until translucent. Then add 1 large can of Petite diced tomatoes and a pinch of salt, folding mixture until combined and let simmer for 10 minutes.

Add sausage mixture to Dutch Oven folding to incorporate one into the other. YOU MAY ALSO ADD MEAT FROM PORK SHOULDER WHICH ADDS ANOTHER DIMENSION OF FLAVOR.

YOU NOW HAVE A DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS, ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND LENTIL CHILI THAT WILL COMFORT YOU ON A COLD WINTER DAY!

"MY YUMLICIOUS RECIPE"

AMADEO P. GIANNINI FORMED THE BANK OF ITALY WHICH LATER BECAME THE BANK OF AMERICA

Amadeo Giannini 

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Amadeo Pietro Giannini, also known as Amadeo Peter Giannini or A.P. Giannini (May 6, 1870 – June 3, 1949) was an American banker who founded the Bank of America. Giannini is credited as the inventor of many modern banking practices. Most notably, Giannini was one of the first bankers to offer banking services to middle-class Americans, rather than only the upper class. He also pioneered the holding company structure and established one of the first modern trans-national institutions.[1] 

Background 

Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born in San Jose, California, to Italian immigrant parents. He was the first son of Luigi Giannini (1840–1877) and Virginia (née Demartini) Giannini (1850–1920). Luigi Giannini immigrated to the United States from Favale di Malvaro near Genoa, Liguria in the Kingdom of Sardinia(later part of Italy) to prospect in response to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Luigi continued in gold during the 1860s and returned to Italy in 1869 to marry Virginia, bringing her to the US and settling in San Jose. Luigi Giannini purchased a 40-acre farm at Alviso in 1872 and grew fruits and vegetables for sale. Four years later Luigi Giannini was fatally shot by an employee over a pay dispute. His widow Virginia, with two children and pregnant with a third child, took over operation of the produce business. In 1880, Virginia married Lorenzo Scatena (1859–1930) who began L. Scatena & Co. (which A.P. Giannini would eventually take over). Giannini attended Heald College but realized he could do better in business than at school. In 1885, he dropped out and took a full-time position as a produce broker for L. Scatena & Co. [2] 

Giannini worked as a produce broker, commission merchant and produce dealer for farms in the Santa Clara Valley. He was successful in that business. He married Clorinda Cuneo (1866–1949), daughter of a North Beach real estate magnate, in 1892 and eventually sold his interest to his employees and retired at the age of 31 to administer his father-in-law's estate. He later became a director of the Columbus Savings & Loan, in which his father-in-law owned an interest. Giannini observed an opportunity to service the increasing immigrant population that were without a bank. At loggerheads with the other directors who did not share his sentiment, he quit the board in frustration and started his own bank.[3] 

Bank of Italy] 

Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco on October 17, 1904. The bank was housed in a converted saloon as an institution for the "little fellow". It was a new bank for the hardworking immigrants other banks would not serve. He offered those ignored customers savings accounts and loans, judging them not by their wealth, but by their character. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780  .1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires leveled much of the city. In the face of widespread devastation, Giannini set up a temporary bank, collecting deposits, making loans, and proclaiming that San Francisco would rise from the ashes.[5][6] 

Immediately after the earthquake, he moved the vault's money to his home outside the fire zone in then-rural San Mateo, 18 miles away. Branch banking was introduced by Giannini shortly after 1909 legislation that allowed branch banking in California. Its first branch outside San Francisco was established in 1909 in San Jose. By 1916, Giannini had expanded and opened several other branches. Giannini believed in branch banking as a way to stabilize banks during difficult times as well as expand the capital base. He bought banks throughout California and eventually Bank of Italy had hundreds of branches throughout the state.[9] 

Bank of America[edit] 

Bank of America, Los Angeles had been established in 1923 by Orra E. Monnette. Giannini began investing in the Bank of America, Los Angeles because conservative business leaders in Los Angeles was less receptive to the Bank of Italy than San Franciscans he been. Bank of America, L.A. represented a growth path for Giannini, and Monnette, President and Chairman of the Board, was receptive to Giannini's investments. Upon finalizing the merger, Giannini and Monnette concurred that the Bank of America name idealized the broader mission of the new bank. By 1929, the bank had over 400 banking offices in California. The new institution continued under Giannini's chairmanship until his retirement in 1945; Monnette retained his Board seat and officer's position. Furthermore, as a condition of the merger, Monnette was paid for handing Giannini the "Foundation Story" rights to the bank, a decision that Monnette later came to regret. Prior to Monnette's creation of the Bank of America Los Angeles network, most banks were limited to a single city or region. Monnette was the first to create a system of centralized processing, bookkeeping and cash delivery. By diversifying the scope of community that the Bank of America served following its merger, the institution was better prepared to ride out minor, local economic issues.[10][11] 

Giannini helped nurture the motion picture and wine industries in California. He loaned Walt Disney the funds to produce Snow White, the first full-length, animated motion picture to be made in the US. During the Great Depression, he bought the bonds that financed the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. During World War II, he bankrolled industrialist Henry Kaiser and his enterprises supporting the war effort. After the war, he visited Italy and arranged for loans to help rebuild the war-torn Fiat factories. Giannini also provided capital to William Hewlett and David Packard to help form Hewlett-Packard. 

Giannini founded another company, Transamerica Corporation, as a holding company for his various interests, including Occidental Life Insurance Company. At one time, Transamerica was the controlling shareholder in Bank of America. They were separated by legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, when Congress passed the Bank Holding Company Act, which prohibited bank holding companies' involvement in industrial activities. 

Upon Giannini's death in 1949, his son Mario Giannini (1894–1952) assumed leadership of the bank. Giannini's daughter, Claire Giannini Hoffman (1905–1997), took her father's seat on the bank's board of directors, where she remained until the 1980s. Giannini is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.